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davidgerard
on May 29, 2023
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Let us serve you, but don't bring us down
no, this is incorrect. Proof of Work was invented by Moni Naor and Cynthia Dwork in 1992 as a proposal to fight email spam.
https://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~naor/PAPERS/pvp.ps
sowbug
on May 29, 2023
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Pretty sure my second-grade teacher invented it. Writing "I will not talk while the teacher is talking" 100 times on the chalkboard is proof of work, and it definitely cut down on unwanted chatter.
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