On Oct 2, 2015 10:03 AM, "Daniele Pinna via bitcoin-dev" < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > should an algorithm that guarantees protection from ASIC/FPGA optimization be found.
This is demonstrably impossible: anything that can be done with software can be done with hardware. This is computer science 101. And specialized hardware can always be more efficient, at least energy-wise. On the other hand, BIP99 explicitly contemplates "anti-miner hardforks" (obviously not for so called "ASIC-resistance" [an absurd term coined to promote some altcoins], but just for restarting the ASIC and mining market in case mining becomes too centralized).
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