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BingoBoingo: It's SHA256, so you can point your mega 400 GH/s Buttfury at Altcoin solo instead of mining for some oversized bitcoin pool.
KRS1: Is it SHA256?
ozbot: [SHA256] Altcoin
pankkake: no, there was a recent wave of sha256 altcoins, after usb erupters were totally useless
ozbot: [SHA256] Altcoin
asciilifeform: i actually first came across that atmel part when looking into commercial ICs having sha256
punkman1: sha256 authentication?
ThickAsThieves: "SHA256 Authentication, hardware RNG, and protected key storage on an easy to mount board"
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 the altcoin is sha256, not pumped and not premined. just like... you know... NO OTHER ALT out there.
Duffer1: The Altcoin is sha256 no?
ThickAsThieves: are sha256 altcoins not common?
ThickAsThieves: not sure how to tell if sha256
ThickAsThieves: <pankkake> a coingen sha256 would be a good base, at least I can replace the coin name :p <<< but really, if it is useful, surely one of the packages for download is that http://coingen.io/status.html
pankkake: a coingen sha256 would be a good base, at least I can replace the coin name :p
ThickAsThieves: i assume itd need to be a SHA256 coin
asciilifeform: recipe for those disinclined to be chumped: 1) read published (3 yrs +) verilog src for sha256. 2) build. 3) see minimum gate count for unrolled hasher 4) laugh
kakobrekla: <Duffer1> azelphur so your target is sha256 altcoin miners?
Azelphur: Duffer1: hell no, the sha256 is mostly for shits and giggles
Duffer1: azelphur so your target is sha256 altcoin miners?
asciilifeform: tell us again about 10GH/sec SHA256.
Neil: https://blockchain.info/block-height/282405 Smallest SHA256 ever? I think that block would pass for 20 trillion difficulty
altkoin: it doesnt matter if a meme sha256 coin comes out
Duffer1: sha256 clones
bloctoc: …if the power goes out, we go back to cave - yes crypto or no crypto that's true. Same argument for breaking SHA256. As far as crowdsource law it will be nice to see some template corporations that get set up by copy/paste instead of paying a lawyer $10K to copy/paste. For what it's worth, I do think the smart contracts will do that for us.
pankkake: ThickAsThieves: well that's ppcoin, it's sha256
Venat: lewicki sha256 breaks? wut?
Vexual: yes i don't know if sha256 exists in natural life in any form
kakobrekla: no he couldnt have done much to ltc, he has sha256 pool not scrypt, not compatible
mircea_popescu: http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/sha256.html
pankkake: as far as I understand, they would be much more expensive than a sha256 asic, because of the memory requirements
kakobrekla: just change their PoS to sha256 PoW and merge it
pankkake: (late response) if sha256 is efficiently cracked, you have more problems than that
jurov: sha256 is power dense, it just isn't possible to throw 4x more transistors into the same space
fractal: mircea_popescu: if you follow the inevitable logic -- the entity with access to the smallest manufacturing process will control a PoW such as SHA256. There is 1 entity who always has the smallest fab process -- Intel.. they can do 14nm and put the rest out of business. They won't until the US Government asks them to, or until mining is worth $5B / year or so to make it worth it
ystarnaud: idk but if you really wanna mine, go scrypt imo... SHA256 is just saturated
Namworld: "We have a base on the moon with 200 square km of floor ready to accept our quantum computers currently in development. Estimated hashing: Instant SHA256"
davout: SHA256(URL+password) is the private key
ericmuys_: buying a few machines that do nothing but hash sha256 don't warrant more than one company. the existing company and new company have one purpose: sha256. would not touch with 10 foot pole.
Diablo-D3: I thought nvc was sha256?
Diablo-D3: sha256 is computational intensive
asciilifeform: Insaneatyou: work on evil things. Trojans that steal BTC/LTC or mine; more efficient ways to brute-force SHA256; attacks on the network; and the like.
Diablo-D3: hmac sha256 on 80 bytes does 192 rounds
Scrat: Diablo-D3: yeah, significant gains other than that would imply a weakening of sha256
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: btw, basically what you're describing is an attack on SHA256
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ASICs are boring because they're a straight competition of fiat bank accounts (with the possible exception of the sneak-an-SHA256-engine-on-a-commercial-die idea)
Diablo-D3: "hi, I cracked sha256, but Im only using it on bitcoin"
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: sat solving is very hard with sha256 or any decent hash
mircea_popescu: Do U think btc should move away from sha256 and let "normal" people the chance ?"
mircea_popescu: "Would it be even remotely possible to force the change in sha256 bitcoin algorith to something else that asic and fpga devices couldnt compute?
Diablo-D3: remember, neither asicminer nor avalon made their sha256 cores
jurov: meh, SHA256 circuit certainly exists
jurov: next on list is via nano, with their sha256 instruction support
Diablo-D3: 130nm 200mm wafers at SMIC using SMIC's IP core library to spam a predesigned sha256 core
kakobreklaa: SHA256 of winners IP addresses and reward payount addresses will be published on bitcointalk.org.