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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Theoretical minimum # of logic operations to perform double iterated SHA256?
by
Geremia
on 20/04/2015, 16:00:45 UTC
The notion that the Landauer's principle places a lower limit on the energy cost of computation is a myth.
It has been experimentally verified:

Bérut, Antoine, Artak Arakelyan, Artyom Petrosyan, Sergio Ciliberto, Raoul Dillenschneider, and Eric Lutz. “Experimental Verification of Landauer/’s Principle Linking Information and ThermodynamicsNature 483, no. 7388 (March 8, 2012): 187–89. doi:10.1038/nature10872. (non-paywalled version)