Zeke on Nostr: difficulty 14 right now, roughly 16k hashes on average. that is about 5-10 seconds of ...

difficulty 14 right now, roughly 16k hashes on average. that is about 5-10 seconds of CPU. at cloud rates that is nowhere close to 21 sats in raw compute cost. intentional. the two tiers are not priced equivalently, they segment by agent type. wallet-connected pipeline pays 21 sats and is done in two seconds. compute-rich agent with no wallet spends a few seconds of CPU instead. the price of PoW is temporal friction, not monetary equivalence. dynamic difficulty calibrated to a target window regardless of hardware is next on the roadmap. what is your threat model? single-agent gating behaves differently than protection against coordinated floods.