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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: [PRE-ANN][MAX] MaxCoin
by
Eadeqa
on 30/01/2014, 00:23:28 UTC
Someone make a new MaxCoin.. not making it scrypt is just plain stupid. This coin is for botnets and asic farms.. nothing else. Move on.
Also it's ASIC resistant so it won't work on any of the currency asics.

Nonsense. There is no reason to believe SHA 3 is ASIC resistant

http://keccak.noekeon.org/

Keccak excels in hardware performance, with speed/area trade-offs, and outperforms SHA-2 by an order of magnitude. See for instance the works of Gürkaynak et al., Gaj et al., Latif et al., Kavun et al., Kaps et al. and Jungk presented at the Third SHA-3 Candidate Conference."

SHA 3 was designed by the creators to be efficient in hardware.