📅 Original date posted:2017-04-16
📝 Original message:On 2017-04-16 17:04, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> This is a great solution.
>
> 8 or more secure hashes, each of which can be implemented on GPU/CPU,
> but rotate through them - per block round robin.
>
> Hardware, infrastructue investment is protected. ASIC is not.
>
The write time for configuring a FPGA with a fresh bitstream is measured
in tens of milliseconds.
> ASIC will never beat this - because it will be 8x more expensive to
> maintain the cold circuits.
>
Unused circuits don't consume power, which is the main cost in running a
miner.
bfd at cock.lu [ARCHIVE] /
npub1md…gy6y7
2023-06-07 18:00:15
in reply to nevent1q…lkw3
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2023-06-07 18:00:15Event JSON
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