Long-Range Attacks: The Serious Problem With Adaptive Proof of Work

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Our current proof of work design, blockchain-based proof of work, is the second iteration of our attempt to create a mining algorithm that is guaranteed to remain CPU-friendly and resistant to optimization by specialized hardware (ASICs) in the long term. Our first attempt, Dagger, tried to take the idea of...

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Published:May 15, 2014 at 09:45 AM

Source:Ethereum Foundation Blog

Category:Crypto

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