Supranational

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   by Supranational 7y ago

   Hey All! We're one of the sponsors of this competition. Please let us know if you have any questions!
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   Time, Randomness, and a $100k Prize to Forever Change Blockchain(aws.amazon.com)

   115 points by Supranational 7y ago|61 comments
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   by Supranational 7y ago

   We are currently investigating ASICs, but a rough estimation would be that they could be at least 10x faster, if not more (e.g. 6 days or less)
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   by Supranational 7y ago

   Hey MrXOR! First off, thanks for posting this link to HN! Second, the VDF used here leverages RSA groups, while the Chia implementation uses Class groups. These two VDFs are compared here: https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo&#
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   by Supranational 7y ago

   The goal was to extract as much parallelism from a single squaring operation as possible using the available hardware resources. We used a Xilinx FPGA. There will be a paper detailing the exact algorithm in the coming weeks. In the interim,
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   by Supranational 7y ago

   Hey All! Cryptophage team here ( https://www.cryptophage.com ). Feel free to ask any questions about our alternative approach to solving the puzzle that Bernard just cracked!