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Re:Proof of work is temporarily illegal in New York by jraph on Thursday November 24, 2022 @10:51AM (#33732681)
The certificate of this domain is expired. I can't check what it does exactly but I would guess that all your Cuckoo Cycle Proof-of-Work scheme does is [something equivalent to calculating hashes - something equally meaningless in itself - for all intents and purposes of your parent commenter].
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Re:Proof of work is temporarily illegal in New York by BlueTemplar on Thursday November 24, 2022 @11:12AM (#33732966)
The point is that it's not all equally meaningless.

However useful uses (typically finding new primes and similar mathematical searches) seem to be fundamentally incompatible with using a blockchain as a distributed ledger in a zero trust environment, because that usefulness automatically weakens the cryptographic safety ?

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Re:Proof of work is temporarily illegal in New York by tromp on Thursday November 24, 2022 @12:14PM (#33733698)
https://web.archive.org/web/20210506232722/http://cryptorial...

also works if your browser is picky about expired certs.

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