Comment by jazzyjackson

You don't need Sama's Orb or a cryptocurrency, you can just have a government issued PKI. Estonia has been doing this for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_identity_card

Cloudflare deployed the "hand out tokens to anonymously pass captchas" to throw Tor users a bone.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/privacy-pass-standard/