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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: [ANN] Bitcoin Full Fork to alternate branch supporting larger blocks
by
rocks
on 20/03/2016, 15:42:18 UTC
you will change the algo to have more decentralization in mining?
Yes, there is a new POW that should be both ASIC and GPU resistant. A modified version of scrypt was used to overcome the short comings in the Litecoin and others implementations, these modifications 1) greatly increased the memory size used and 2) added a long sequence of random memory accesses which eliminate the effectiveness of pipelining needed to make ASICs efficient.

The code for the new POW and an explanation is here

https://github.com/satoshisbitcoin/satoshisbitcoin/blob/0.11.2_PublicTest_At403562/src/crypto/modified_scrypt_smix.cpp#L193