March 11, 2026
This blog now includes a comments section. But not just any comments section, rather a comment section that may sound silly at first. The idea is to have a cost attached to actions that in large numbers may prove to be junk or spam. This has many benefits, two of my favorites being: I don't have to moderate comments, and I get to gain from any potential spam. The simple rule is:
One has to pay 1 USDC to write a comment.
"Pricing via Processing” (or Combatting Junk Mail) was a pivotal paper written in 1992 by Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor that proved to be an intellectual ancestor to blockchains. In this paper, they describe "a computational technique for combatting junk mail in particular and controlling access to a shared resource in general."
https://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~naor/PAPERS/pvp.pdf
Brilliant. All spam welcome.
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