It seems like having a website open and available on the internet is getting practically impossible to manage, with bots accounting for more and more traffic. AI has gotten to a point where it can circumvent just about any form of captcha, sooooo, what? Does "the internet just get abandoned in favor of some other, better technology that we hope crops up? Does it fade away? Do the real nerds start their own separate internet, and not let companies in? I donno, food for thought I guess.
Get out of here with that crypto shit. The delivery costs are practically nothing as network hardware has grown in capability. The only reason blockchain shitware has a cost associated with it is its monumental inefficiency due to the proof of work bollocks it has to do.
The costs of network infrastructure is always diminishing.
OK, how else can we stop bots, spam, and relentless scraping of everything?