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.
next prev 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 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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