Section 2.1.4 of the technical whitepaper reads:
By having a flexible cipher policy, we can take advantage of opportunities in the mining marketplace to acquire the greatest possible hash power. As certain kinds of hardware stop being economical on other chains, we can make room for them on Epic at a lower price, increasing their return on capital while delivering hash power to the network at a lower marginal cost. As other kinds of ciphers stop being effective, we can diminish or eliminate their allotment on Epic, making room for newer providers.
Can you provide any practical examples of such a policy working in any other PoW cryptocurrencies?
What are the potential attack vectors introduced by having a flexible cipher policy, and how are they mitigated?
Hi wesdewayne. We asked our developer Todd Lewis, and he replied:
1. Not at the moment (sorry, very busy with launch preparations), but I believe there are a few projects with a similar system.
2. We think a flexible policy reduces risk. The normal case of a static policy is a subset of the dynamic policy case. I.e, we can always implement a static policy via the dynamic framework. However, we also can respond quickly to changing circumstances in mining and security, which others cannot.
Please let us know if you have any other questions!
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Epic Cash Mainnet Launches September 2, 2019
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After almost two years of development and testing, our development team has given the green light to officially launch the Epic Cash Mainnet network on 7 PM UTC Monday, September 2, 2019.
We want to give a big THANK YOU to all the dedicated testers and contributors who helped Epic Cash get here.
Be sure to get the latest wallet and miner releases to mine on launch day!
https://epic.tech/downloads/