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November 06, 2013, 01:44:17 PM
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I was just thinking, could you make a coin with something like the SSE4 instruction set? I'm thinking you would target subset of instuctions that only high end CPU's could do. It would make it so that you couldn't use GPUs, because they would have a disadvantage and the only next step would be an FPGA/ASIC.

If we found an instruction set that worked well, you could do a diff between primecoin and bitcoin and then just rewrite the changed parts to the new instruction set.

I'm not entirely sure how useful a CPU/FPGA/GPU coin would be, but I think it would be the only of it's kind. 

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November 06, 2013, 02:12:05 PM
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Very bad idea.

Can you elaborate?

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