Cleaning up bad bots (and the climate) (blog.cloudflare.com)

This is similar to hashcash proof of work concepts that inspired Bitcoin. Use proof of work to make not traffic expensive, to create a financial disincentive for running the bot.

I'm curious to see if Tor users get impacted by this.

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

Is there something better than a CPU intensive task? They obviously are worried about the power consumption.

I'm thinking a memory and time intensive task that is minimally CPU intensive would be better.

Grandma's DSL router is about to get much warmer.