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Author Topic: FPGA/GPU optimized but ASIC proof SHA256 coin? Is it possible?  (Read 699 times)
TheSwede75 (OP)
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June 13, 2013, 02:55:30 PM
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Completely hypothetical question. Would it be possible/feasible to design a coin that uses SHA256 but with variables that are explicitly ASIC hostile (memory requirement, cycles or other factor) towards the current BFl/Avalon architecture and optimized for current gen GPU/FPGA?

I think it's if nothing else a fun proposition.
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June 13, 2013, 02:59:06 PM
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Sure, just do sha256(sha256(sha256))) instead of sha256(sha256)

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June 13, 2013, 03:30:28 PM
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Sure, just do sha256(sha256(sha256))) instead of sha256(sha256)

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June 13, 2013, 06:54:20 PM
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Sure, just do sha256(sha256(sha256))) instead of sha256(sha256)

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Begs the question, what are the benefits of deep nested SHA256 versus Scrypt algo?  This is interesting, both from a hardware perspective as well as programming/software.  I'm almost tempted to get something running on testnet and analyze performance differences.
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