Re:What Bitcoin’s White Paper Got Right, Wrong and What We S...
by Retric on Saturday October 31, 2020 @07:12PM
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Memory-hard hashing algorithms are basically the same idea.
They use less power simply because people are going to spend the same total amount of money in terms of compute hardware + energy, however RAM consumes less energy per per dollar spent on it than ASICs/CPU’s etc.
They use less power simply because people are going to spend the same total amount of money in terms of compute hardware + energy, however RAM consumes less energy per per dollar spent on it than ASICs/CPU’s etc.
3W per 8GB of DDR4 is a reasonable baseline. https://www.crucial.com/support/articles-faq-memory/how-much...