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Is there a general statement of Expanse regarding ASICs, PoW, possible consensus changes and so on? I am not familiar with the current PoW algo, does it have ASICs? It doesn't look like it's Ethash, or is it?

Yes, its ethash, and current known ASICs are not that great to take GPUs out of game. There were also some comments about
changing algo in Expanse discord channel.

You can see more info about proposed changes here:

https://medium.com/@OhGodAGirl/the-problem-with-proof-of-work-da9f0512dad9

Yay, I've been searching for that article anyway, thanks!

Expanse is ETHASH and we have been trying to decide what would be best for us. Changing the algo certainly has its fair share of advantages and disadvantages.

Well, from what I gathered so far, the Ethash ASICs don't seem to have a really huge advantage over GPUs, so it could be worse.

What is the general stance regarding ProgPoW, though? Have you looked into it?

Yes we have looked into it and we are a supporter of the technology. It certainly has a place. It would be nice to see the progpow devs submit a pr to expanse.

What about updating some of the existing algorithms used in ethash?