[idiotsecant]

I hate to say it because this kind of sentiment is now wildly unfashionable, but this is an actual example of where we should be using crypto. We need the ability to time-lock a very small amount of money that we get back later in order to access a resource.

[jeffhuys]

What would that solve? A scraper could just have a wallet with 10$?

[idiotsecant]

The same solution a proof of work provides: make it expensive to execute millions of commands, and cheap to execute one.

[jeffhuys]

But you state they get it back, sooo..?