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by timmb 379 days ago
How did we end up with bitcoin before this?
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PoW rate limiting actually pre-dates PoW cryptocurrency, the former has just had a resurgence recently in response to AI scrapers pissing in everyone's pools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash

The original Bitcoin paper even cited Hashcash as inspiration.