From: "Jorge Timón" <jtimon@jtimon.cc>
To: NxtChg <nxtchg@hush.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
Daniele Pinna <daniele.pinna@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Dev-list's stance on potentially altering the PoW algorithm
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 13:00:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABm2gDrp1SJqRKg5+cgw03BJn84oROQya05pofU4fawRT3UGkQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151002104630.5F7A720101@smtp.hushmail.com>
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On Oct 2, 2015 12:46 PM, "NxtChg" <nxtchg@hush.com> wrote:
>
>
> >...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.
>
ASIC-RESISTANCE is simply not possible, I'm sorry if that position strikes
you as arrogant. Note that I didn't say anything about memory-hard, which
is possible (but not necessarily preferrable to
simple-to-implement-in-hardware pow algorithms).
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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
2015-10-02 11:00 ` Jorge Timón [this message]
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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