[Cryptography] Proof of Work is the worst way to do a BlockChain

[John Levine]

In article <CACMCW-MgqJiVpSCMm-Z-=dEWJF-1Z9DdafhTo9fo3=r4q+_prw at mail.gmail.com> you write:
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>2018-02-19 10:49 GMT+03:00 John Levine <johnl at iecc.com>:
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>> In article <6012d900-c6d6-4fc4-b0c0-ef7068a0c4ea at echeque.com> you write:
>> >However a better system would be pay to send, be paid to receive.  Then
>> >people would honeypot the spammers.
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>> That is another WKBI, one with an expired patent.

>Can u provide the expired patent if it is easy for you to spot?

The best known one is 6,697,462

Not expired: 7,072,943

Look them up on Google Patents and click cited by to see a lot of
other applications on similar things.

R's,
John