Why Dagger-Hashimoto for Ethereum?

[verifyas]

Dagger-hashimoto is basically the core of Ethereum's proof of work. With it the drawbacks that arose from bitcoins PoW were tackled prominently the use of ASIC machines. There are many arguments that it is possible to make ASIC machines for Ethereum, if that happens we sure would be talking a whole new RAM revolution.

We wrote up a post to describe how it happened and how it works:
https://medium.com/@verify.as/why-dagger-hashimoto-for-ethereum-773f0792a689

Feel free to drop any comments or questions on the subject.

[ibininja]

It is expected with the shift to PoS this concern would be addressed at least no one would even consider ASIC anyways.

[verifyas]

True; there is an intersting conversation on an attempt by one of the companies you can read more about it here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2094314.msg21154563#msg21154563

I think at the end of the day is that ethereum is made to be ASIC resistant so the developers would not stop updating for that.