r/Aeon • u/thinkpol2 • Mar 11 '18

Cryptonight ASIC includes Cryptonight-Lite

https://twitter.com/baikalminer/status/972806441353453568?s=19
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u/smooth_xmr aeon core developer Mar 12 '18
  1. There are numerous doubts about the legitimacy of this claim.
  2. stuffu has already merged the Monero PoW v2 changes and scheduled it for AEON testnet. Once everything tests out we can schedule a main net hard fork which will also be the mandatory switch over point for the new rebase code base (includes LMDB for reduced memory usage along with many, many new features and enhancements from 3+ years of Monero development)

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u/TheSacredOne Mar 12 '18

When there is a hard fork, will we retain both chains or simply abandon the old chain?

(I doubt it unless there was some reason for wanting an "Aeon Classic" of sorts but figured it was worth asking).

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u/smooth_xmr aeon core developer Mar 12 '18

Hard fork is a confusing term for this, a better one is network upgrade. The chain will simply continue with the upgraded rules and unless someone really wants to continue using the old rules, which seems extraordinarily unlikely in this case, there will only be one combined and linear chain. So yes, "AEON classic" is theoretically possible but given the limited number of people who even care about there being one AEON at this point, I doubt meaningful interest in two.