📅 Original date posted:2015-10-02
📝 Original message:Interesting! I didn't notice BIP 99's anti-miner hardfork proposal....
thanks for pointing it out to me.
Dpinna
Daniele Pinna, Ph.D
On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Jorge Timón <jtimon at jtimon.cc> wrote:
>
> On Oct 2, 2015 10:03 AM, "Daniele Pinna via bitcoin-dev" <
> bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > should an algorithm that guarantees protection from ASIC/FPGA
> optimization be found.
>
> This is demonstrably impossible: anything that can be done with software
> can be done with hardware. This is computer science 101.
> And specialized hardware can always be more efficient, at least
> energy-wise.
>
> On the other hand, BIP99 explicitly contemplates "anti-miner hardforks"
> (obviously not for so called "ASIC-resistance" [an absurd term coined to
> promote some altcoins], but just for restarting the ASIC and mining market
> in case mining becomes too centralized).
>
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