TL;DR: Crypto Dev Digest (CDD) is a regular column, documenting cryptocurrency development, highlighting the projects and persons working under the hood. The SLP Virtual Hackathon, scheduled for 72 hours, September 27th (12PM UTC) through September 30th (12PM UTC), is being shown donation love from exchanges and developers. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin muses about ASIC ratios. CashScript development advances. ETH Gas limits continue to be a subject of concern.

Vitalik on ASIC Mining/Hardware/Electricity Ratio

What is the mainstream view on what we can expect the long-run ratio of hardware costs to electricity costs of ASIC mining to be? Last time I did the math, hardware was 75% and electricity 25%, wondering if that has or is expected to change. — Vitalik Non-giver of Ether (@VitalikButerin) September 23, 2019

The ecosystem continues to debate ASIC mining and its viability going forward, relative to issues of centralization, environmental impact, reliance on sweetheart government deals, and so forth.

At this point, the jury is still out on whether mining rigs, algorithms, and good ole Proof-of-Work (PoW) tinkering can lead to a better mousetrap … or if changing the time-honored recipe hastens disaster.

SLP Virtual Hackathon Continues to Raise

$1500 anonymous donation came in to the #SLPVH prize pool yesterday! The BCH reward is now $4500, with $1000 worth of SPICE+$300 of SAI, and $1000 worth of FLEX and up to $1000 worth of Drop on the way 😀 https://t.co/gOJNcbIuAt – make sure to sign-up if you haven't yet! Sep 27 — blockparty_sh (@BlockpartySh) September 18, 2019

The first-of-its-kind SLP Virtual Hackathon is only days away, and donations from the community are adding up nicely. CoinSpice spoke again with organizer Jt, and he credits developer Gabriel Cardona with the funding push. “Basically, Gabriel started matching people for donations, a bunch came in, then someone dropped $1500 in one go,” Jt explained.

When asked for specifics, Jt detailed, “So almost 14bch($4300), 1.3 million spice, (~$1200) 7500 sai (~$375), soo that is almost $6,000. Then there is also: 7,000 Drop not yet added (from Cryptophyl, worth currently ~$500) and CoinFLEX promised either $1,000 worth of FLEX or BCH.”

CashScript 0.1.2-beta Functionality Released

This functionality has been released in cashscript@0.1.2-beta. You're now able to send OP_RETURN olutputs from the CashScript SDK to do things like posting to @memobch from a cash contract. Check out the example to see it in action!https://t.co/FROwiUNvFX https://t.co/bh9UUgqGZU — Rosco Kalis (@RoscoKalis) September 20, 2019

Running Smart Contracts at Native Speed

If #BitcoinCash with #CashAssembly and #Nimbus can calculate the validation costs of a transaction beforehand, it can run smart contracts at native speed – so it doesn't need to add costly and difficult to implement metering to the contract, unlike Ethereum and with ewasm 🤔 — Tobias Ruck (@TobiasRuck) September 18, 2019

ETH Gas Limit Reaches 10M Amid More Bloat

Block 8583023 just had a gas limit of 10,000,000. The Ethereum network has now gained 25% more capacity versus last week, and the state size bloat that comes with it. Will miners stop it here? — Eric Conner (@econoar) September 20, 2019

Gabriel Cardona Presented at the Wyoming Hackathon

Lead BCH developer Gabriel Cardona made his way, for the second year in a row, to the Wyoming Hackathon. He’s also scheduled to give full details on an upcoming CoinSpice Live. Don’t miss it!

1/I'm very excited to announce my personal #WyoHackathon project—https://t.co/6OHjFSVx6U Oracles is a platform for launching Oracles on #BitcoinCash The code is 100% Open Source under the MIT License: https://t.co/TilHmUUsKu — Gabriel Cardona (@cgcardona) September 22, 2019

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