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How is the power consumption compared with other PoW e.g. SHA1?
by est 11y ago
How is the power consumption compared with other PoW e.g. SHA1?
- tromp 11y agoWith Cuckoo Cycle, you pair every siphash evaluation (mapping 64 bits to 64 bits; a much cheaper hash function than SHA1 by an order of magnitude) with a random memory access. As a result, most of the power consumption will be from the memory subsystem. I believe a DRAM chip draws on the order of 1W. So you should be able to run this on a smartphone, while it's charging overnight.