XMRig Based Anti-Spam / Rate Limiting
Why hasn't someone built an XMR web-miner that is first & foremost made to replace captchas & reduce spam while also generating revenue?
I imagine the profit potential would be quite high for anyone who could implement their own solution & maybe like XMRig have a default donation value to get paid for creating thing.
It would be amazing if as a website owner I could have set difficulties to preform certain tasks & the server could send users work units for users to complete, obviously at a much lower difficulty but if they manage to actually complete the work or get a correct hash then it could be designed to automatically send that back. Increased revenue (maybe enough to replace ads), less spam, & no captchas for users, everyone would win & all this extra mining would increase the security of the Monero network.
Is there an obvious reason I'm not seeing as to why this hasn't been done?
Swap your Monero to a currency using a decentralized exchange or something like Trade Ogre or StealthEX, then sell on whatever exchange you have access to. Ideally if you want to go the KYC route (don't support KYC businesses if you can) then use an exchange like Kraken or anyone who still offers Monero just to support the ecosystem & keep them around.
Gift cards from Coin Cards or Cake Pay are great options as well. Also just see if you can pay people in XMR, I've ended up being able to pay so many people online for such random things in XMR with a bit of convincing, obviously in person people will just want cash. Crypto really is online money first. Great for long-distance transfers & storing value in a fully self-sovereign way.