On Oct 2, 2015 12:46 PM, "NxtChg" <nxt...@hush.com> wrote: > > > >...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. >
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).
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