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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What do you think PoW was created for. This is exactly the use case of PoW -- to reduce malicious traffic. It works great!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Though if an attacker has an ASIC he can single-handedly dominate the whole pool of other users as ASICs are tremendously more efficient than CPUs

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Depends on the hashing algorithm. Tor implements two, and neither are vulnerable to custom architectures like ASICs