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…you do realize that brute forcing it is the work you use to prove yourself, right? That’s the whole point of PoW
True, I should of phrased that better.
The issue is that sha256 is fairly easy to do at scale. Modern high performance hardware is well optimized for it so you could still perform attack with a bunch of GPUs. AI scrapers tend to have a lot of those.