Today, we are officially introducing a proof-of-work (PoW) defense for onion services designed to prioritize verified network traffic as a deterrent against denial of service (DoS) attacks with the release of Tor 0.4.8.
A new DoS protection mechanism for Tor leveraging Proof-of-Work.
That’s a great idea to kill it once and for all, or maybe to make it really only for pedos, drug dealers and criminals. Good thinking there…