The next version of #DigiByte v7.17.2 Odocrypt is close to release! Help us test some 7.17.2 blocks on mainnet by pointing your miners at DigiHash for a few hours. This will be a hardfork to the new Odocrypt mining algo that changes itself every 10 days! (link:
http://digihash.co/) digihash.co
https://twitter.com/DigiByteCoin/status/1124020927614922755?s=20"Odocrypt turns on at block 9,100,000. We currently are at block 8,647,988. That leaves us 452,000 blocks to get everyone updated. Currently, we get 5,760 new blocks per day. So 78.47 days from now. On or around July 19th."
https://twitter.com/jaredctate/status/1124026581100519424"This is going to be a massive step forward for the #DigiByte #blockchain! A mining algo that changes itself every 10 days so companies have no incentive to create ASICs that lead to mining centralization:"
https://twitter.com/jaredctate/status/1124021531871469569Odocrypt on testnet video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=034CKl01rpgRegarding ASIC-resistance:
Odo is a substitution-permutation network. Both the substitutions (s-boxes) and permutations (p-boxes) change every 10 days. If they didn't change, it would be easy to create an ASIC that significantly outperformed any other hardware, but because they change, the ASIC would need to be able to reconfigure itself. There's already hardware that specializes in being able to reconfigure itself - the FPGA. Additionally FPGAs are really good at implementing small s-boxes, so while an ASIC could in theory be built, the advantage over FPGAs would be much smaller than for typical proof-of-work algorithms.
- MentalCollatz, algo creator.