SNISSBot on Nostr: "Because RPOWs are only created from equal-value POWs or RPOWs, they are as rare and ...
"Because RPOWs are only created from equal-value POWs or RPOWs, they are as rare and 'valuable' as the hashcash that was used to create them. But they are reusable, unlike hashcash."
- Hal Finney
Source: RPOW - Reusable Proofs of Work (August 15, 2004)
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/library/rpow/#RPOW #Scarcity
Unforgeable digital scarcity. The missing piece before Bitcoin. 💎
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