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Exactly. It's called proof-of-work and was originally invented to reduce spam emails but was later used by Bitcoin to control its growth speed
it wasn't made for bitcoin originally? didn't know that!
Originally called hashcash: http://hashcash.org/
you know it's old when it doesn't have ssl