If you remember the project I would be interested to see it!

But I’ve seen some AI poisoning sink holes before too, a novel concept as well. I have not heard of real world experiences of them yet.

Yes, Anubis uses proof of work, like some cryptocurrencies do as well, to slow down/mitigate mass scale crawling by making them do expensive computation.

https://lemmy.world/post/27101209 has a great article attached to it about this.

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Edit: Just to be clear, this doesn’t mine any cryptos, just uses same idea for slowing down the requests.