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Re:A captcha that requires your computer to solve equations ... by wildtomato on Sunday September 08, 2019 @11:47AM (#20911222)
If this is essentially a hashcash, what prevents them from swapping that out for a cryptominer after getting an established user base (if they aren’t already mining)?
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Re:A captcha that requires your computer to solve equations ... by wutbrodo on Sunday September 08, 2019 @03:43PM (#20912909)
Why would preventing this matter?
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Re:A captcha that requires your computer to solve equations ... by Kiro on Sunday September 08, 2019 @03:07PM (#20912667)
Why would users care? They will waste the same amount of electricity. In fact, I would argue it's better than solving a pointless equation.
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Re:A captcha that requires your computer to solve equations ... by hombre_fatal on Sunday September 08, 2019 @12:46PM (#20911619)
Finding a profitable cryptominer in the first place.

For example, CoinHive shut down.

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