0 sats \ 4 replies \ @shyfire OP 14 Nov 2023 \ parent \ on: Reasons to prefer blake3 over sha256 bitcoin
Seems like keccak is the ASIC friendly replacement for sha256, not Blake.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @anon 14 Nov 2023
No, keccak isn't implementable with SHA256 hashers. You'd have to make a whole new ASIC, at which point keccak or Blake could be implemented in the hardware just as easily.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @shyfire OP 14 Nov 2023
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd 14 Nov 2023
That reply is wrong in the context of PoW mining, as PoW mining is already trivially parallelizable.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @shyfire OP 14 Nov 2023
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