Comment by lxgr
14 hours ago
Or something that shadier websites could calculate ahead of time in your browser, then spend on your behalf.
I feel like Anubis is ironically speedrunning a lot of discoveries the crypto folks have already made several years ago...
What if the work output was bound to a particular source IP? That'd stop most "theft" at the expense of discards when your device switches networks.
Anubis does this. Happy Eyeballs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Eyeballs), IPv6 privacy extensions (https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2026-01-15-ipv6-privacy-exte...), and devices migrating between home and mobile IP addresses as the person moves have all caused issues with this. Fixing this is hard, but I have been trying.