yup, and a simple SHA256 ASIC is so cheap and easy to make.
RandomX is really hard to implement on hardware, so creating an ASIC for it is gonna be really expensive.
CPU's profit from it because it's specifically made for CPU, and the memory hard operations make mining on GPU's the same as/slower then CPU mining.
thinking of writing a nostr proxy that:
- uses TCP instead of websockets
- uses msgpack instead of JSON
and some other nifty stuff for making Nostr easier on the bandwith.
Y or N?
true, but actively fighting against massive farms with thousands of GPU's and ASIC's, and putting CPU miners in front allows for more decentralization as smaller miners now also have a chance of giving back to the network.
pools are great for giving smaller miners a chance,, but they are a possible attack vector because of centralization (p2pool excluded, as it is peer to peer)
on the other side, this is easy mining botnets too (especially IoT botnets).
yeah, actually. It's trivial for a gov funded group to have a lot of ASIC's join the miners and easily turn the entire network into their bitch.
hence why ASIC resistant mining is a thing. hence why you should use Monero :)
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nah, something like RandomX or EquiX must be used.
or, even beter, Useful Proof of work: factorizing primes, solving computationally hard and useful problems, or anything like that (too lazy to type more lel)
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depends, if a simple SHA256 hashcash/bitcoin PoW is implemented it really isn't as expensive as you think.
+ there's probably somebody already solving Nostr's PoW for a few sats
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people will ask, why? And I will reply with, why not?
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Monero is more ASIC resistant than Bitcoin, so it is much better than a simple SHA256 based PoW.
Also, because it's so ASIC resistant, it gives the little miners (potato cpu havers) a better chance at contributing to the network. Bitcoin has huge ASIC miner farms absolutely dominating the network, and because SHA256 hardware implementations are so trivial to make, said ASIC's are very cheap too.
imo, Monero is the best thing to have if you care about your anonimity
Nah Ulbricht got what he deserved. He didn't enforce proper OPSEC rules, and got caught because of his own mistakes.
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