Here's just a fun little bit of information:
You may have seen by now the GNOME Gitlab making use of Anubis and seen mentions of it using "Proof Of Work" and thought that sounds familiar. That's because it should, the mathematics behind how Anubis slows down AI scrapers is fundamentally the same idea as how Bitcoin consensus algorithm works.
Maybe more interestingly, Proof of Work began as a spam mitigation method and was only later popularized by Bitcoin.
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