I know what it is. It is not a barrier to entry though.

He explained why it is, so can you elaborate on why it’s not?

Because it’s not. I can spin any number of emulators or VMs that do any amount of work with a simple script, but that’s all it does. How does it prove I’m anything but a scripted, virtual instance of a person with a device?

There’s a reason why Telegram is flooded with bots, Signal as of now has not been.

Dafuq are you talking about ? Telegram does need phone numbers for sign up

Of course it does.

Bots can buy phone numbers, hell, they can solve most captchas better than humans.

There’s a reason why Telegram is flooded with bots, Signal as of now has not been.

Telegram requires a phone number, so it clearly isn’t working.

Sure, if you had unlimited gpus with unlimited electricity then it wouldn’t keep you from spinning up unlimited bots

Bruh. No GPU needed. I build multiplatform apps daily on GitHub Actions. Dafuq you talking about?

how do you produce unique hashes with the correctly sized nonce?

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It’s a time and resource gate, not a way to prove that you’re a human.

Also doesn’t Telegram require a phone number too?

You’re in the wrong thread.

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I’m really not. Did you want to try making a coherent point again? Or are you all tapped out?

Yes. Please explain again how compute == human

It doesn’t… No one was claiming that…

Are you lost?

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