Quote from: dga on August 06, 2014, 06:26:59 PM

Quote from: dga on August 03, 2014, 07:13:08 PM

Quote from: iCEBREAKER on August 03, 2014, 06:23:13 PM

8 ) innovative proof-of-work seems GPU and ASIC resistant

Let's just quietly remove that one from the list before the post looks foolish in a few months. I haven't paid enough attention to the rest of the currency to comment, so I'll keep my mouth shut there.

I guarantee you: This is not a "resistant" algorithm. It has some speedbumps, and they're relatively nice speedbumps, but there's nothing harder in there than there is for designing custom hardware for attacking RSA or other large-number systems.

It's GPUable - again, with difficulty, and the speedbumps are enough to keep a run-of-the-mill developer out of it for a while - but someone like Claymore or C&C could take this one apart in a few weeks.

cf my posts in that thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=713538.msg8159131#msg8159131
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=713538.msg8159722#msg8159722

(I'm not convinced this should be a major selling point in the first place, though, so perhaps it's better to find a good point to replace it.

That didn't take long. GPU miner released before wolf0 and I could even start annoying people by talking about how much we'd sped up the CPU version.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=713538.msg8212829#msg8212829

So how long until FPGA?