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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by Kerbonut on Sunday October 23, 2022 @11:48AM (#33307830)
Ethereum combats that with the concept of gas. You have to pay to play, which is a concept I’ve heard repeated tons of places for ending spam email.
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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by pdpi on Sunday October 23, 2022 @12:03PM (#33307951)
Gas doesn't do much for Cybil resistance, it's largely meant to stop you from clogging up the network by publishing a transaction that executes the busy beaver function on some nasty input, or something similarly hostile.
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