Quote from: chrysophylax on September 10, 2020, 01:41:41 PM

Quote from: CascadiaCC on May 17, 2020, 08:47:45 AM

A few quick questions. I've been following this project since 2016 and acquired my NXS then.

1) Is Nexus still a SHA-3 based quantum resistant coin/blockchain? If so, why doesn't the new site emphasize that?
2) Is Nexus ASIC resistant? I saw a mining pool for Blackminer's ASIC had Nexus listed as mineable. So is the hash channel now dominated by ASIC hardware?
3) Related to #2, is this why GPU miner development hasn't been updated in years?

I still want to believe in this project but I need some clear answers going forward.

Quite good questions ...

I would like to see what the answers would be also.

Though I would think that the mining side has been dominated by FPGA for quite some time now, and those that have GPU could still mine reasonably well also.

#crysx

Paul already answered the questions a little above your post. ill paste em here for you:

"1) We do still use SHA-3 as part of the hashing for the hash channel. Our quantum resistance comes from a number of factors... not only from our adoption of post-quantum hashing functions such as FALCON, but also through our Signature Chains architecture, which constitutes one-time use public/private keys and limits the window of opportunity for brute-force cracking. All aspects of Nexus's quantum resistance is covered in detail on the website here https://tech.nexus.io/quantum-resistance

2) No Nexus is not ASIC resistant, though I'm not aware that any have been developed so far. There have been FPGA bitstream's developed for the Nexus hash channel and Blackminer is offering an FPGA (to use with their pool) complete with a Nexus bitstream.

3) The GPU miner for the hash channel was updated last year.... https://github.com/Nexusoft/NexusMiner. The hash channel didn't have too much room for improvement, but this miner includes significant speed improvements for GPU mining on the prime channel. Jack (aka Blackjack) who originally developed NexusMiner whilst working for Nexus, has since made further updates to NexusMiner on his personal github repo. I can't find the link to it at the moment but I'm sure someone could post it of you need it. "