Re:Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision...
by tromp on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @09:24AM
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> the hash machines
Not all PoW is hash based. Some, like Cuckatoo Cycle [1], are based on writing and reading random bits within hundreds of MB of memory, and ASICs for such PoW are dominated by SRAM, which can in principle be repurposed.
Not all PoW is hash based. Some, like Cuckatoo Cycle [1], are based on writing and reading random bits within hundreds of MB of memory, and ASICs for such PoW are dominated by SRAM, which can in principle be repurposed.
[1] https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo