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[โ€“] Xylight@lemdro.id 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why not then just make it a setTimeout or something so that it doesn't nuke the CPU of old devices?

[โ€“] rtxn@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Crawlers don't have to follow conventions or specifications. If one has a setTimeout implementation that doesn't wait the specified amount of time and simply executes the callback immediately, it defeats the system. Proof-of-work is meant to ensure that it's impossible to get around the time factor because of computational inefficiency.

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