Re: Hashcash for IM2000

"D. J. Bernstein" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.im2000
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hashcash isn't as good (i.e., isn't as closely aligned with the actual
economics of the situation) as a payment to the receiver, but it doesn't
hurt as an add-on.

Ricardo SIGNES writes:
> What keeps a spammer from computing a large number of hashes

Depends what you mean by ``large.'' One-hour hashcash is comparable to
one-penny postage.

---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
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