📅 Original date posted:2015-10-02
📝 Original message: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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