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by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 449 days ago
Yeah it's like hashcash. You have to try random numbers until you roll a hash with enough leading zeroes. Then you get a cookie (JWT I think) that's valid for a week.

SHA2 can run on ASICs and isn't memory-hard, so I'm hoping someone will add something tougher