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Use a different proof-of-work #13

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aarmea opened this issue Apr 2, 2018 · 0 comments
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Use a different proof-of-work #13

aarmea opened this issue Apr 2, 2018 · 0 comments

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aarmea commented Apr 2, 2018

Currently, we're using a variant of Bitcoin's proof-of-work to validate messages. This is extremely vulnerable to DoS attacks by ASIC-accelerated miners.

Consider switching to something storage or memory intensive, like Ethereum's Ethash.
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