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I'm only tangentially familiar with it so someone else please correct me if I'm wrong. Etherium requires a significant memory footprint to compute, whereas BTC
by NamTaf 9y ago
I'm only tangentially familiar with it so someone else please correct me if I'm wrong.
Etherium requires a significant memory footprint to compute, whereas BTC and LTC do not. As such, an ASIC was able to have a heap of compute power but very little memory and it'd crunch through as much hashing as a GPU with far less upfront cost.
Etherium on the other hand requires lots of memory, so to add on the memory to the ASIC you essentially kill its competitiveness against a mass-produced GPU from a capital investment point of view.
- pawadu 9y agoWasn't LTC also claimed to be GPU and ASIC proof due to its high memory usage?
- Tuna-Fish 9y agoLTC had a high memory use compared to bitcoin, but ASICs caught up to it. Ethereum is designed to have high and increasing memory use, to make it a moving target that is hard to hit with anything more cost-efficient than a GPU.