From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
To: Alan Reiner <etotheipi@gmail.com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] ASIC-proof mining
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 12:28:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2403605.jQQrFQc91a@momentum> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53B68E6B.6090602@gmail.com>
On Friday 04 July 2014 07:22:19 Alan Reiner wrote:
> I think you misundersood.... using ROMix-like algorithm, each hash
I did. Sorry.
> requires a different 32 MB of the blockchain. Uniformly distributed
> throughout the blockchain, and no way to predict which 32 MB until you
> have actually executed it. If the difficulty is high enough, your
> miner is likely to end up going through the entire X GB blockchain while
> searching for a good hash, but other nodes will only need to do 32 MB
> worth of disk accesses to verify your answer (and it will be unknown
> which 32 MB until they do the 1,000,000 hash+lookup operations on their
> X GB blockchain).
Excellent.
Andy
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Dr Andy Parkins
andyparkins@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-04 11:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-04 10:27 [Bitcoin-development] ASIC-proof mining Andy Parkins
2014-07-04 10:53 ` Alan Reiner
2014-07-04 11:08 ` Eugen Leitl
2014-07-04 11:15 ` Andy Parkins
2014-07-04 11:22 ` Alan Reiner
2014-07-04 11:28 ` Andy Parkins [this message]
2014-07-04 11:37 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-07-04 12:01 ` Andy Parkins
2014-07-04 15:20 ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-04 16:50 ` kjj
2014-07-04 18:39 ` Ron Elliott
2014-07-04 19:54 ` Aaron Voisine
2014-07-04 20:21 ` Jorge Timón
2014-07-04 20:38 ` Luke Dashjr
2014-07-04 20:55 ` Randi Joseph
2014-07-05 8:43 ` Mike Hearn
2014-07-07 0:20 ` Randi Joseph
2014-07-07 6:12 ` Odinn Cyberguerrilla
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