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From: "NxtChg" <nxtchg@hush.com>
To: "Jorge Timón" <jtimon@jtimon.cc>,
	"Daniele Pinna" <daniele.pinna@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Dev-list's stance on potentially altering the PoW	algorithm
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 13:46:30 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151002104630.5F7A720101@smtp.hushmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABm2gDrOt2m6xfYjtVJne6Cm2nawXtA2-a4y7kaEA1fEgkUUUA@mail.gmail.com>


>...obviously not for so called "ASIC-resistance" [an absurd term coined to promote some altcoins]

Yet another fallacy of "all-or-nothing" thinking, which is so abundant in the Core camp.

The fact that you can build ASIC for any kind of algorithm _in_theory_ doesn't mean you can't make it _arbitrary_hard_ in practice.

So I would tone down the arrogance a bit.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-02 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-02  8:02 [bitcoin-dev] Dev-list's stance on potentially altering the PoW algorithm Daniele Pinna
2015-10-02  8:20 ` Jorge Timón
2015-10-02  8:30   ` Adam Back
2015-10-02  8:31   ` Daniele Pinna
2015-10-02 10:46   ` NxtChg [this message]
2015-10-02 11:00     ` Jorge Timón
2015-10-02 16:38   ` Peter R
     [not found] ` <CALqxMTH6r8eJN2Xw+nn1z=6x9Q3TRSQQ6ZMXsmHPyX8dNx+EgA@mail.gmail.com>
2015-10-02  8:30   ` Daniele Pinna
2015-10-02 16:45     ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-10-02 21:37       ` Dave Scotese
2015-10-02 21:31 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-10-02 23:19   ` Milly Bitcoin

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