[bitcoin-dev] Dev-list's stance on potentially altering the PoW algorithm

NxtChg nxtchg at hush.com
Fri Oct 2 10:46:30 UTC 2015


>...obviously not for so called "ASIC-resistance" [an absurd term coined to promote some altcoins]

Yet another fallacy of "all-or-nothing" thinking, which is so abundant in the Core camp.

The fact that you can build ASIC for any kind of algorithm _in_theory_ doesn't mean you can't make it _arbitrary_hard_ in practice.

So I would tone down the arrogance a bit.



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