📅 Original date posted:2015-10-02
📝 Original message:See also https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3n5nws/research_paper_asymmetric_proofofwork_based_on/cvl922x
Adam
On 2 October 2015 at 10:20, Jorge Timón
<bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> 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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Adam Back [ARCHIVE] /
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2023-06-07 17:42:17
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"content": "📅 Original date posted:2015-10-02\n📝 Original message:See also https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3n5nws/research_paper_asymmetric_proofofwork_based_on/cvl922x\n\nAdam\n\nOn 2 October 2015 at 10:20, Jorge Timón\n\u003cbitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org\u003e wrote:\n\u003e\n\u003e On Oct 2, 2015 10:03 AM, \"Daniele Pinna via bitcoin-dev\"\n\u003e \u003cbitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org\u003e wrote:\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e should an algorithm that guarantees protection from ASIC/FPGA optimization\n\u003e\u003e be found.\n\u003e\n\u003e This is demonstrably impossible: anything that can be done with software can\n\u003e be done with hardware. This is computer science 101.\n\u003e And specialized hardware can always be more efficient, at least energy-wise.\n\u003e\n\u003e On the other hand, BIP99 explicitly contemplates \"anti-miner hardforks\"\n\u003e (obviously not for so called \"ASIC-resistance\" [an absurd term coined to\n\u003e promote some altcoins], but just for restarting the ASIC and mining market\n\u003e in case mining becomes too centralized).\n\u003e\n\u003e\n\u003e _______________________________________________\n\u003e bitcoin-dev mailing list\n\u003e bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org\n\u003e https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev\n\u003e",
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