Re:Proof of work is temporarily illegal in New York
by jraph on Thursday November 24, 2022 @10:51AM
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The certificate of this domain is expired. I can't check what it does exactly but I would guess that all your Cuckoo Cycle Proof-of-Work scheme does is [something equivalent to calculating hashes - something equally meaningless in itself - for all intents and purposes of your parent commenter].
Re:Proof of work is temporarily illegal in New York
by BlueTemplar on Thursday November 24, 2022 @11:12AM
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The point is that it's not all equally meaningless.
However useful uses (typically finding new primes and similar mathematical searches) seem to be fundamentally incompatible with using a blockchain as a distributed ledger in a zero trust environment, because that usefulness automatically weakens the cryptographic safety ?
Re:Proof of work is temporarily illegal in New York
by tromp on Thursday November 24, 2022 @12:14PM
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https://web.archive.org/web/20210506232722/http://cryptorial...
also works if your browser is picky about expired certs.
There's more to mining than hashing [1]. My Cuckoo Cycle Proof-of-Work scheme for example searches random graphs for fixed length cycles.
It would be more correct to say all the Hashcash Proof-of-Work does is calculating hashes.
[1] https://cryptorials.io/beyond-hashcash-proof-work-theres-min...