From: Bram Cohen <bram@bittorrent•com>
To: Natanael <natanael.l@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>,
Erik Aronesty <earonesty@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Properties of an ideal PoW algorithm & implementation
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 10:43:03 -0700 [thread overview]
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Repeatedly hashing to make it so that lossy implementations just fail
sounds like a great idea. Also relying on a single crypto primitive which
is as simple as possible is also a great idea, and specifically using
blake2b is conservative because not only is it simple but its block size is
larger than the amount of data being hashed so asicboost-style attacks
don't apply at all and the logic of multiple blocks doesn't have to be
built.
Memory hard functions are a valiant effort and are holding up better than
expected but the problem is that when they fail they fail catastrophically,
immediately going from running on completely commodity hardware to only
running on hardware from the one vendor who's pulled off the feat of making
it work. My guess is it's only a matter of time until that happens.
So the best PoW function we know of today, assuming that you're trying to
make mining hardware as commodity as possible, is to repeatedly hash using
blake2b ten or maybe a hundred times.
Mind you, I still think hard forking the PoW function is a very bad idea,
but if you were to do it, that would be the way to go.
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2017-04-18 10:34 ` Natanael
2017-04-18 19:14 ` praxeology_guy
2017-04-19 11:08 ` Tim Ruffing
2017-04-19 17:43 ` Bram Cohen [this message]
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