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		jplewicke on May 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We got hacked It sounds like one of the Bitcoin alternatives is scrypt based, and they are putatively getting a roughly 10x speedup from GPUs: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Litecoin#Scrypt_Proof_of_Work . Is that a new development, or is it in the neighborhood of how GPU-resistant it was supposed to be?

JoachimSchipper on May 11, 2013 [–]

The Litecoin guys just set the "make GPUs suck" (aka "memory use") parameter too low.

jplewicke on May 12, 2013 | [–]

Thanks!

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