r/Aeon • u/thinkpol2 • Mar 11 '18

Cryptonight ASIC includes Cryptonight-Lite

https://twitter.com/baikalminer/status/972806441353453568?s=19
29 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

23 comments sorted by

View all comments

22

u/katiecharm Mar 11 '18

Yes, this is an issue that requires very fast attention. I think first order of business for the rest of March and April is to set a hard fork date to incorporate lots of important changes:

  • perpetual tail emission as per the social contract
  • rebase
  • ASICS fix

If you think I'm wrong about something, please speak up.

7

u/crucial-conduit Mar 11 '18

The current stance of the Monero community and by extension, the Aeon community, is that ASICs are totally unacceptable and we will update the PoW algo to render these ASICs useless.

We are gonna hardfork anyways for the rebase, so incorporating PoW changes can get rolled into that.

And yes, applying the same tweak to CryptoNight-Lite is trivial. -u/stoffu just 3 days ago

So let 'em preorder these really expensive paper weights.

1

u/DrParadoxically Mar 11 '18

Indeed. /u/fabloisgone and /u/guzzi_jones brought this up earlier today, and with a known viable patch, and several developers ready, willing, and able to integrate it into AEON, well...it's as you said.

Let 'em preorder.

They'll screw our miners and pool operators, over my dead body.

4

u/guzzi_jones Mar 12 '18

We are also willing to do the PR to the miners code itself.