On Oct 2, 2015 12:46 PM, "NxtChg" <nxtchg@hush.com> wrote:
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> >...obviously not for so called "ASIC-resistance" [an absurd term coined
to promote some altcoins]
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> Yet another fallacy of "all-or-nothing" thinking, which is so abundant in
the Core camp.
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> 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.
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> So I would tone down the arrogance a bit.
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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).