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Re:DOOM Captcha by meowface on Monday May 24, 2021 @07:33PM (#27270965)
Spam and DoS prevention were actually the original purpose of Proof of Work. Hashcash, the first (I think) anti-spam PoW algorithm, was what Bitcoin's PoW algorithm was inspired by.
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