It’s not seconds though, it’s in the order of tens of milliseconds of work, it’s faster to complete the challenge than most http requests will take.

last difficulty 5 nonce 645376 in 9 ms (101.6MH/s, avx512-x16)

This takes many minutes to solve on a cellphone, 9 milliseconds on a cheap VPS. It’s not stopping anyone.

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bombela 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yep, on my aging phone it takes quite w noticable amount of time to go through. But on my more recent laptop wnd workstations, it's a quick flash of a manga lolita.

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Jtariiiii 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>It’s not stopping anyone.

You could just spend 30 seconds googling instead of confidently asserting nonsense. There are plenty of people demonstrating that Anubis reduces bot traffic.

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drum55 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That’s because its weird and mostly irrelevant, it’s nothing to do with the proof of work being any sort of economic impediment. It takes Claude a few minutes to write a near instant solver, that’s the maximum proof of work cost this adds.

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gruez 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>There are plenty of people demonstrating that Anubis reduces bot traffic.

"Anubis reduces bot traffic" and "[the proof of work] is not stopping anyone" isn't contradictory, especially if anubis isn't being benchmarked against non-POW alternatives like IP/ASN bans, or tls fingerprinting.

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Jtariiiii 3 hours ago | parent [-]

"it's not stopping anyone" and "it is stopping some people" are mutually exclusive statements.

	▲	gruez 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You're selectively quoting the comment. It's clearly talking about the PoW aspect not being a serious impediment.