I look for the simplest way to explain my disdain for Boost…
I look for the simplest way to explain my disdain for BoostPOW, and here it is: You are not growing antlers, you are buying them. Handicap Principle does not apply here.
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My skepticism could be formulated similarly: paying to burn energy is not a costly enough signal.
An Anon spending money to burn energy is not a signal that people will expend energy to consider after its initial novelty. Consider spam. Spam is genuinely costly with its associated liability, legal, and personal risks. Who reads spam?
It really does come down to your observation. In the real world, paying to burn energy is not a sufficiently costly signal to be effective or even meaningful.