• Dæmon S.@catodon.rocks
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    3 hours ago

    And where in my comment did I say “Anubis is a cryptocurrency”?

    Because, if you re-read my comment:

    Anubis a “proof-of-work anti-bot” which performs similar instructions that of cryptomining

    Emphasis on “similar instructions that of cryptomining”. I used the word “similar”:

    From French similaire, from Medieval Latin similaris, extended from Latin similis (“like”). […] Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, allied, comparable.

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/similar

    As for why I’m comparing Anubis to cryptomining:

    Iaso [author of Anubis] lists Hashcash as having inspired the [Anubis] project.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis_(software)

    Hashcash is a proof-of-work system used to limit email spam and denial-of-service attacks […] Like hashcash, cryptocurrencies use a hash function as their proof-of-work system

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

    Proof of work was later popularized by Bitcoin as a foundation for consensus in a permissionless decentralized network

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

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    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
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      2 hours ago

      But Codeberg just doesn’t want cryptocurrency scams, and Anubis isn’t a currency, it has no ability to pump and dump like cryptocurrencies can. Proof-of-work to weed out bots has little similarity in practical usage with proof-of-work to waste electricity for a digital number that is more often a scam than not.