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Re:The Evolution of Bitcoin Hardware [pdf] by zkms on Friday February 02, 2018 @01:50PM (#16293109)
> it's basically two rounds of SHA-256.

There's a bit more to this; there's clever optimisations you can do (based on the Merkle–Damgård structure of SHA256 and the format/semantics of the data being hashed): http://www.mit.edu/~jlrubin/public/pdfs/Asicboost.pdf

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.00575.pdf

Re:The Evolution of Bitcoin Hardware [pdf] by simias on Friday February 02, 2018 @07:50PM (#16295444)
Yeah I conveniently avoided to talk about that, but this is more like exploiting a weakness in the bitcoin protocol, it wasn't really meant to be feasible (and made many people angry when it was patented). That is innovation however, I grant you that.