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How it is news? It's been around for years already. Was there a major new development in scrypt that I didn't hear about? Or is this just "let's submit everythi
by M4v3R 13y ago
How it is news? It's been around for years already. Was there a major new development in scrypt that I didn't hear about? Or is this just "let's submit everything tar snap related week" as cperciva put it?
- obituary_latte 13y agoAs the guidelines[1] put it: >What to Submit >On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. [1]http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- gaelow 13y agoI find interesting that scrypt asics are on the way: http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/20/kncminer-sells-2-million-worth-of-scrypt-mining-machines-in-four-hours/?ncid=tcdaily http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/20/kncminer-sells-2-million-wo...
- ryan-c 13y agoThey very specifically only handle the very weak (1024, 1, 1) work factor parameterization of scrypt (which AFAIK isn't used by anything other than altcoins) and various workflow optimizations they do internally make them unable to run even those scrypt parameters on arbitrary data.
- chubot 13y agoOK interesting, I didn't realize that the altcoins use scrypt. I remember hearing that Litecoin used a scheme that was supposed to be GPU-resistant, but didn't realize it was scrypt. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Litecoin https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Litecoin Looks like there is a Bitcoin variant: http://bitcoinscrypt.org/ http://bitcoinscrypt.org/