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Until someone writes the proof of work code for GPUs and it runs 100x faster and cheaper.
by vhcr 1y ago
Until someone writes the proof of work code for GPUs and it runs 100x faster and cheaper.
- runxiyu 1y agoAnubis et al. are also looking into alternative algorithms. There seems to be consensus that SHA-256 PoW is not appropriate
- genewitch 1y agoThere's lots of other ones but you want hashes that use lots of RAM, stuff like scrypt used to be the go-to but I am sure there are better, now.
- marginalia_nu 1y agoA big part of the problem with these scraping operations is how poorly implemented they are. They can get a lot cheaper gains by simply cleaning up how they operate, to not redundantly fetch the same documents hundreds of times, and so on. Regardless of how they solve the challenges, creating an incentive to be efficient is a victory in itself. GPUs aren't cheap either, especially not if you're renting them via a browser farm.