tevador/equix
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A CPU-friendly client puzzle with instant verification
4 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2023-08-24 · latest 2026-05-04
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…in far more situations than PoS. A derivative of RandomX is now used to protect TOR too (Equi-X). https://github.com/tevador/equix/blob/master/devlog.md
comment by hyc_symas · 2026-05-04 · in How Monero’s proof of work works -
From https://github.com/tevador/equix/blob/master/devlog.md > The service would give the request a priority value based on the "difficulty" of the puzzle solution. Seems like single clients could increase the difficulty to higher than what…
comment by capableweb · 2023-08-25 · in Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services -
A good explanation of the algorithm is here: https://github.com/tevador/equix/blob/master/devlog.md > they are talking about 1 minute solve times once a DDOS is detected. The point of this is to prevent an existing easy DoS attack…
comment by 8organicbits · 2023-08-24 · in Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services -
…get through durring a DoS attack, but it may still take work. Interesting choice of PoW algorithm: https://github.com/tevador/equix > Hence, instead of forcing clients to go below a static target like in Bitcoin to be successful, we ask…
comment by 8organicbits · 2023-08-24 · in Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services