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Re:Scaleway announces measures against abusive Chia plotting... by r1ch on Thursday May 20, 2021 @04:52PM (#27227075)
The reference implementation is Python, so there's lots of room to optimize. I wonder if you can eventually build an ASIC that replaces the disk based lookup with in memory calculations of the same data.
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Re:Scaleway announces measures against abusive Chia plotting... by crazypython on Thursday May 20, 2021 @05:37PM (#27227644)
Can you send a link? I'd like to help.
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Re:Scaleway announces measures against abusive Chia plotting... by nessex on Friday May 21, 2021 @05:36AM (#27232046)
Most of the work happens in C++[1]

[1] https://github.com/Chia-Network/chiapos

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