Quote from: MakingBubbles on September 14, 2015, 12:57:34 AM

Quote from: markm on September 13, 2015, 09:28:34 PM

One thing CPUs can do much better than GPUs is the kind of "mining" described at http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=cpu_mining

There are quite a few currencies and other assets that have been running along those lines for years now, as shown at http://galaxies.mygamesonline.org/digitalisassets.html

Bear in mind that in addition to discouraging GPUs it is also necessary to make it hard for botnets to play too, otherwise instead of losing out to GPU farms ordinary users lose out to folks who run botnets.

Thus it is best for not only the code required to involve a whole lot of decisions and branches and different possibilities but also for there to be an advantage to users who are at their keybpard relatively frequently, so that trying to run hundreds or thousands of "mining processes" tends to take more and more actual human intervention to keep them all running and to keep them all adapting.

-MarkM-

thats another way to look at it i dont like the CoffeeMud tho.. what if central server gets dos'd i still think the answer lies in I/O overhead reducing gpu advantage.. it really is the bane of developing on a distributed system

Well this is really just a method for distributing currencies/assets, not for securing blockchains.

Ideally there would not be one central MUD, rather all the various groups and nations and clans and organisations and so on would be spread out over gosh knows how many MUDs, the Brits distributing their United Kingdom Britcoins on one set of MUDs, the Canucks distributing their Canadian Digital Notes on another set and so on.

-MarkM-