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Comment by Aurornis

3 days ago

The Anubis difficulty setting is (or was) so high that nobody could visit the site without leaving it open for minutes or hours.

I think that only happens when you use an old browser without native sha256 support (so it fallback to pure js implementation of sha256).

>Anubis was enabled in the tar pit at difficulty 1 (lowest setting) when requests were pouring in 24/7

>difficulty 1 (lowest setting)

literally in the comment you're responding to

  • > After 2 minutes at 150 kHashes on mobile, I finally see the first pixel of the progress bar filling up. Seems like it will take hours or a day to finish. Some estimate would have been nice.

    Literally the grandparent of the comment chain you're responding to.

  • The actual site did not have it at difficulty 1.

    Literally discussed throughout the whole comment section.