Re: Hashcash for IM2000

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.im2000
Message-ID <[email protected]>
D. J. Bernstein <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Depends what you mean by ``large.'' One-hour hashcash is comparable to
> one-penny postage.

With the sidenote that monetary inflation makes one-penny postage cheaper much
less quickly than CPU power "inflation" makes a given hashing problem
"cheaper".

I still prefer djb's IM2000/postage ideas over hashcash and other proposed
ideas.

Charles
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