On 21 Jan 2014, at 16:32 , Bill Stewart <[email protected]> wrote:
> - Litecoin uses scrypt, which was designed to not fit into ASICs or GPUs, so > people with regular PCs could still mine it, without being crowded out by > commercial miners. It turns out that people have figured out how to fit it > into GPUs, which still run about 10-100 times as fast as CPU mining, While unfortunate for Litecoin’s users, that does demonstrate a nice benefit of crypto currencies for the public cryptography community - it gives a direct financial benefit to ordinary people working on attacking cryptography, and their discoveries will be much more likely to leak than government cryptographers.
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