There may be - or, very likely are - shortcuts for proof of research better than Grover's; which, when found, will also be very useful for science and medicine. However, that advantage is theoretically destabilizing for a distributed consensus network; which is also a strange conflict in incentives.

Sort of like buying "buy gold" commercials when the market was heading into the worst recession since the Great Depression.

SSL accelerators may benefit from the SHA256 ASIC optimizations incentivized by the bitcoin design.

"""The accelerator provides the RSA public-key algorithm, several widely used symmetric-key algorithms, cryptographic hash functions, and a cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generator"""

GPU prices are also lower now; probably due to demand pulling volume. The TPS (transactions per second) rate is doing much better these days.

How would you solve the local daretime problem in order with Git and signatures?