Yes I went there. BoostPOW is a Rube Goldberg solution to costly signaling, upvote systems, or anything else. You can do the same things by creating data structures, writing them to Bitcoin, and utilizing them. Any benefit of BoostPOW is not derived from a new way of doing things. It is derived from simply using Bitcoin public ledger and getting all the benefits that provides.
Yes I went there. BoostPOW is a Rube Goldberg solution to costly signaling, upvote systems, or anything else. You can do the same things by creating data structures, writing them to Bitcoin, and utilizing them. Any benefit of BoostPOW is not derived from a new way of doing things. It is derived from simply using Bitcoin public ledger and getting all the benefits that provides.