Re: hashcash on wordpress

"Eric S. Johansson" <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:43:15 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.hashcash
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6/14/2011 1:35 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 01:03:13PM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
>> did you know about this?
>>
>> http://wordpress-plugins.feifei.us/hashcash/
> Indeed, although technically speaking, it isn't Hashcash. It doesn't use
> the tokens, nor does it the Hashcash algorithm. Instead, it uses
> obfuscation in JavaScript to force the client to present a matching key.
> It is proof-of-work, but it's not Hashcash.

hmm maybe we should enforce out trademark by giving them an imp of hashcash to use.

and yes, I am going to follow up on the thunderbird extension path.