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of course, specialised hardware will always outperform general purpose hardware. all that is indicative of is the question you’re trying to ask in malformed. s
by foxhill 8y ago
of course, specialised hardware will always outperform general purpose hardware. all that is indicative of is the question you’re trying to ask in malformed.
suppose, for instance, you could parameterise a merkle-damgard construction, such that a fixed physical network for calculating hashes could not exist (of course, there are many avenues of pitfalls with that suggestion, my gut tells me they are soluable). something that could be calculated from previous block values, somehow.
now you have an ever changing hash function that lives for 10 minutes, requires strictly general purpose hardware to operate, and would solve (one of the) issues i identified in my opening reply.