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From: bfd@cock•lu
To: erik@q32•com, Erik Aronesty <earonesty@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Malice Reactive Proof of Work Additions (MR POWA): Protecting Bitcoin from malicious miners
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2017 22:28:56 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <461f7ce7a17c5765daadc461cdd3373c@cock.lu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJowKg+dZr-PcHfCY5AO2BO8_-5QfwzvG3PuJA+mTLWw9=a-Og@mail.gmail.com>



On 2017-04-16 17:04, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> This is a great solution.
> 
> 8 or more secure hashes, each of which can be implemented on GPU/CPU,
> but rotate through them - per block round robin.
> 
> Hardware, infrastructue investment is protected.  ASIC is not.
> 

The write time for configuring a FPGA with a fresh bitstream is measured 
in tens of milliseconds.


> ASIC will never beat this - because it will be 8x more expensive to
> maintain the cold circuits.
> 

Unused circuits don't consume power, which is the main cost in running a 
miner.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-17  1:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-18 16:01 John Hardy
2017-03-20 15:38 ` Andrew Johnson
2017-03-20 15:46   ` John Hardy
2017-03-20 16:10     ` Andrew Johnson
2017-03-20 15:55   ` Marcos mayorga
2017-04-16 20:04     ` Erik Aronesty
2017-04-17  1:28       ` bfd [this message]
     [not found]         ` <CAJowKg+1vUBmr7cTzUy8gAdjEWTM_+07G9Z96Bo=wd6_htgv1Q@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]           ` <CAJowKgJPjWb_S0jb+RJ9-90sucb=ZeU2-qrNqrVN5USTaxDjDw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-04-17  7:47             ` Erik Aronesty
     [not found]               ` <CAJowKgKqyb7DCs-yrbj4Z8Kzmgg0GCKXh+wwdSvfPHregiwdvA@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                 ` <CAJowKgL=UmJvE0KpSsa20AJBF6Ur85ghRymHY+=11VOezmaaxw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-04-17 11:17                   ` Erik Aronesty
2017-04-17 22:34                     ` Natanael
2017-03-20 18:02   ` Nick ODell
2017-03-20 18:51     ` David Vorick
2017-03-20 21:29     ` John Hardy
2017-03-20 17:49 ` Bram Cohen
2017-03-20 21:23   ` John Hardy

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