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Carlos | 11 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +3 
 PoW WoW v0.1 is out!

It is a distributed marketplace for event PoW.

Anyone can be a client, offering to buy PoW for their event. And anyone can be a provider, selling hashrate.

A reputation system based on past trade behavior punishes dishonest clients or providers. For example, a client who creates requests but doesn't pay gets a bad reputation. Similarly, a provider who delivers a blinded solution which, after payment and unblinding, turns out to have less bits of PoW than asked by the client, also gets a negative reputation.

There are 3 clients available: WASM, CLI, and a Gossip fork. A CLI provider is available for those who want to try out mining.

Check it out at https://lab.oak-node.net/powwow

cc @NostReport @No Bullshit Bitcoin
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d074a0c5 | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 very cool ser
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powrespecter | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Huge news at the top of https://powrelay.xyz/explore today:

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pippellia | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I will take a look today. Seems cool
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Carlos | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Re your 1. "PoW as an anti-spam measure":

I'm working on PoW WoW, a distributed marketplace for event PoW. Can be used by mobile clients who can't afford to mine themselves, allows miners to join or leave at will, and be paid non-custodially over LN.

It has Rust libraries for clients and providers, but I can add bindings for other languages too.

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