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Specialized ASICs are not easy to come up with, what's more if it's in a tug of war you can expect those to suddenly become obsolete, rendering this approach to
by Leo_Germond 3y ago
Specialized ASICs are not easy to come up with, what's more if it's in a tug of war you can expect those to suddenly become obsolete, rendering this approach too costly for a scrapper. Also you may have missed the part in the original link where they were using AWS to do the scrapping, so no ASICs there, and you pay by the minute, two things that would make PoW a valid countermeasure, no "free computation" in that setup.
- emporas 3y agoAs far as i know, btc and ethereum actively fight the ASICs, because they will diminish the profits of amateur miners, and will bring great centralization to the network. Which is true, and it is no problem.
- 8organicbits 3y agoYou wouldn't need to host the ASICs (or even GPUs) in AWS, anything there can easily call back to a self hosted compute farm with the challenge.