Monero Declares War on ASIC Manufacturers

Re:Monero Declares War on ASIC Manufacturers by guelo on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @03:37PM (#16379146)

What are these scheduled hard forks? Is it a property built into Monero's algorithm or is it a process centrally planned by the governance.

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Re:Monero Declares War on ASIC Manufacturers by elmar on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @03:42PM (#16379186)

Monero has schedule hard-forks for software upgrade

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Re:Monero Declares War on ASIC Manufacturers by tylersmith on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @04:27PM (#16379560)

The developers have a release cycle that includes periodic hard forks. AFAIK there is nothing algorithmic to entice or force a fork like the Ethereum difficulty bomb does.

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Re:Monero Declares War on ASIC Manufacturers by AndrewBissell on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @04:35PM (#16379640)

The scheduled hard fork is announced weeks in advance, and high-profile clients like exchanges are "strongly encouraged" to upgrade. If you run your own XMR full node on an old version past the fork date, you get a bright red warning message telling you to get the new version.

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Re:Monero Declares War on ASIC Manufacturers by matthewbauer on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @05:42PM (#16380208)

That sounds extremely centralized.

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Re:Monero Declares War on ASIC Manufacturers by plasticmachine on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:49AM (#16382677)

Anyone can be a Monero contributor and can work on the hard fork.

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Re:Monero Declares War on ASIC Manufacturers by dna_polymerase on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @03:56PM (#16379281)

I am not too sure, but someone in the Monero space told me that it is some kind of "voting on Moneros direction"-thing. Basically by forking the community decides what the developers should do.

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