[vmttmv]

but... how? when the author ran the numbers, the rough estimate is solving the challenges at a rate of 10000/5 min, on a single instance of the free tier of google compute. that is an insignificant load at an even more insignificant cost.

[guappa]

That's insanely slow compared to how fast they normally scrape.

[verteu]

As mentioned in the article, mining one token gets you unfettered access for 7 days.