ECIP-1070: ProgPoW for ETC Discussions

[YazzyYaz]

Discussions for ProgPoW for ETC Discussions concerning this Pull Request: #171

[realcodywburns]

Conclusion of hardware and software security audits.
https://medium.com/ethereum-cat-herders/progpow-audits-released-ed4973ebe073

[realcodywburns]

Former home of gangnum testnet. https://github.com/greerso/testnet
Status Dashboard: http://boot.gangnam.ethdevops.io/
Block Explorer: https://gangnam.etherchain.org/
Mining Pool: https://gangnam.wattpool.net/
Gitter Support: https://gitter.im/ifdefelse/community/

[realcodywburns]

Current Trello of ProgPoW hype/fud https://trello.com/b/KrD25QI5/progpow

[BelfordZ]

gonna post the same comment I wrote for the sha3 ticket:
#13 (comment)

[zmitton]

The asymmetry between mining and verifying is still problematic (too low). It has the same issue as Ethash: Extremely expensive verification (compared to sha256, for instance). This is because of a pseudo-random changing of params per epoch (every ~5 days). This prevents the ability to have a pure function for verification. Verification requires a much more expensive context: The full historic datasets that resulted in particular epoch params.

[soc1c]

Yeah, that's why I believe SHA3 is the most elegant solution.

[GregTheGreek]

I believe this can be closed.