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		sliverstorm on Oct 30, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Announcing The Dark Mail Alliance – Founded by Sil... I thought even extremely strong encryption was computationally quite light- it's cracking the crypto that takes computing muscle.

conductor on Oct 30, 2013 [–]

Maybe they are going to require "Proof of work" - https://bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_work

toomuchtodo on Oct 30, 2013 | [–]

If only there was some way to make spammers do the work of Bitcoin miners....

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