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That sabotage was "necessitated" by the desire for fast proof-of-work verification. With hashcash, proof attempt is as hard as proof verification, but there ar
by tromp 12y ago
That sabotage was "necessitated" by the desire for fast proof-of-work verification.
With hashcash, proof attempt is as hard as proof verification, but there are other asymmetric schemes where the former is much harder.
The first such PoW was primecoin. My own design Cuckoo Cycle is another, that aims to be the most memory bound of all PoWs.
- cperciva 12y ago> That sabotage was "necessitated" by the desire for fast proof-of-work verification. Oh, I understand why they did it. But it still removed the most important property of scrypt. We wouldn't have scrypt ASICs if that change hadn't been made.