[numberless]

This pretty much solves the problem of too many bots, but only in a way that works with Cloudflare and does not help the rest of the web. They don't mention any possibility of specifying a different platform to route payments through for instance.

[ethbr1]

Cloudflare published details of the prototype implementation, so there's no reason if it takes off then other CDNs and hosts can't implement the same 402 protocol.

There's literally nothing Cloudflare-specific about this.