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Proof of work showing LHS verses RHS, where LHS tries to confirm real person and RHS confirms proof of work
Blog / Infrastructure · 26 August 2026

I Couldn’t Use Google’s reCAPTCHA — So I Built My Own Bot Challenge for Clearnet, Tor, and I2P

Every mainstream bot defence needs to fingerprint your browser or phone home to a third party. We needed one mechanism that works the same on clearnet, Tor, and I2P — here’s the incident that forced the question and what we built instead.

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