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by hedora 814 days ago
This is basically how Apple does things. Instead of proof of work, they bake the tokens into devices.

The basic idea is that they'll happily let you sneak a few spam messages through iMessage if you're willing to spend a few hundred dollars on a burner iPhone. This is one reason why they're so resistant to allowing gateway protocols between iMessage and third party devices or RCS.