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Re: [VNL] Vanillacoin | WPX | ECC | O(1) routing | Random ports | CoinPP | POW/POS
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Riseman
on 25/04/2015, 23:23:49 UTC
Quote from: nikos64 on April 25, 2015, 11:12:00 PM
Quote from: john-connor on April 25, 2015, 11:44:43 AM

While the FPGA advantage is mainly power consumption I picked the whirlpool hash function because it runs about 10-50 times faster on hardware than other hash functions. That said, the move to FPGA's will be a huge leap forward in terms of hash output vs GPU devices.

Thank you for your support.
That violates the most basic requirement (in my opinion) for every coin. That is, to be mineable by everyone with a computer.
But I don't expect from you to understand this  Cheesy
You proved before, that you are a great developer but you don't  think too much of the morals of your creations.

Actually his approach makes sense particularly from the developer's standpoint. More hashrate means more security for the network. Cryptocurrency was initially designed as a decentralized payment system rather than a way to get rich by means of your computer. Although most people on this forum tend to forget this or just value coins by the profit they can make regardless of their real use as a currency.