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The Anubis difficulty setting is (or was) so high that nobody could visit the site without leaving it open for minutes or hours.

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I think that only happens when you use an old browser without native sha256 support (so it fallback to pure js implementation of sha256).

>Anubis was enabled in the tar pit at difficulty 1 (lowest setting) when requests were pouring in 24/7

>difficulty 1 (lowest setting)

literally in the comment you're responding to

> After 2 minutes at 150 kHashes on mobile, I finally see the first pixel of the progress bar filling up. Seems like it will take hours or a day to finish. Some estimate would have been nice.

Literally the grandparent of the comment chain you're responding to.

The actual site did not have it at difficulty 1.

Literally discussed throughout the whole comment section.

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