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Are there benchmarks for the time it takes to do PoW?

I ask because it sounds like you’re saying that the same level of difficulty would be a negligible delay for a bot on a fast server, but take an unacceptably long time for a human using a web browser.

In that case bots will have an advantage over many real users.
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Jonathan 2y ago

True, but two things.

1. WASM helps with that in the browser

2. It still takes a moment natively. If you’re trying to send out hundreds of events a second it’ll make that impossible

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s3x_jay 2y ago

#[2]​ had said “takes a minute”. I didn’t know whether he meant a literal 60 seconds or he meant “takes a brief moment”. If it’s the latter it’s no big deal.

I’d still love to see benchmarks though.

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Cameri🐦‍🔥 2y ago

12 bits took a little less than a minute using unoptimized JS code.

Sample code: https://observablehq.com/@jb55/nostr-playground

This is just a sample algorithm not where the benchmark should be conducted.