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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Challenges of Proof-of-Useful-Work (PoUW) · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2209.03865/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2209.03865/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Challenges of Proof-of-Useful-Work (PoUW) — mentioned by Tiberium</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48411522</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2209.03865:48411522</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:31:57 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;The core claim of the paper is related to PRL&amp;#x27;s prices. The paper says: &amp;gt; at current PRL prices ($0.21) But this is the price for Perle - https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/perle/ - an entirely different project. The actual Pearl (PRL) price is $0.76 as of now - https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/pearl-2 - which is more than 3x difference. Based on this, I&amp;#x27;m quite skeptical of the usefulness of the rest of the paper. Plus the authors for at least one cited paper seem to be hallucinated/wrong (I&amp;#x27;m leaning into hallucinated because the style looks more similar to Claude). For example, in the…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2209.03865/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CR</category></item></channel></rss>
