Thanks for WK. Long term, it might be possible to auto-generate equivalent-difficulty hash functions. A new hash function for every block. That would fix things back down to FPGA technology level, and contribute better to generic hardware development.
Inspired by the new private-minichain paper, I was trying my hand at designing an altcoin around it.
The ASIC-hard POW I came up with isn't even remotely as elegant as the holy grail of auto-generated equivalent-difficulty hash functions, but has the advantage of using proven off-the-shelf code to achieve much of the same effect.
PM about M8++ and iCEPACK sent.
