https://coinguides.org/x16r-algorithm-coins/ Thu, 01 Aug 2019 10:41:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://coinguides.org/x16r-algorithm-coins/#comment-7878 Thu, 01 Aug 2019 10:41:27 +0000 https://coinguides.org/?p=3551#comment-7878 x16r is not entirely ASIC resistant either, but FPGA-s will probably win, because in ASIC, one has to develop a complete bus system to build hashes of arbitrary order, meanwhile _IF_ all the hashes can be implemented fully pipelined, you can build a script to make an HDL code consisting of exactly the needed series of hashes, synthesize it and download it into and FPGA within like 5 minutes after the last block has been mined. Then that FPGA core will be 100% suited to calculate just that series of hashes, that the last block specifies.
Making it FPGA resistant too would be like selecting the type of the next hash based on the outputs of intermediate hashes…

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