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Why do people think proof of human is useful?

To avoid bots in digital products: leaving reviews, sniping memecoins, generating replies

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What happens if you pay people to do that or rent out their proof of human credentials?

People only have one proof of human credential to rent out so you have to convince many individual people to rent theirs to continue to spam/attack. And because people can only get one themselves, they take risk in lending theirs out.

In other words, the marginal cost of acquiring an ID and performing an attack is much higher when (1) only humans can get an ID [personhood] and (2) humans can only get one [uniqueness]. There are fewer IDs in the market and require more coordination to obtain.

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But why do I care if you’re human? Does that make you inherently more “valuable” to a protocol than a bot?

UBI and KYC, what else?

The valuable networks are the ones that are able to segment what / who is valuable to customers / advertisers. 

So humanness is an input, but not critical.

And if AI agents start spending $, then why do you care?