š
Original date posted:2015-10-02
š Original message:The following paper proposing an asymmetric memory-hard PoW had been
recently published:
http://eprint.iacr.org/2015/946.pdf
My intent is not to promote the paper as I have not finished studying it
myself. I am however interested in the dev-list's stance on potentially
altering the bitcoin PoW protocol should an algorithm that guarantees
protection from ASIC/FPGA optimization be found.
I assume that, given the large amount of money invested by some miners into
their industrial farms this would represent a VERY contentious hard fork.
It is, however, also true that a novel optimization-resistant algorithm
could greatly ameliorate decentralization in the bitcoin network due to a
resurgence of desktop/cellphone mining.
Where do the core devs stand on this matter, hypothetical as it may be?
Dpinna
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