Thanks for posting this.

It will be really interesting to see how this develops. I think coin devs working with hardware devs is the future. I cant wait to see the layout inside this thing. I will be exceptionally interested in getting my paws on one of these.

But it does imply that equihash really is not the algo for asic resistance. I’m surprised this was not caught earlier by the foundation. Yes I think this is more the foundations responsibility than zookos. It really seems Zooko had the best intentions and knew his limits so passed oversight of this sort of thing to the foundation… This is just my opinion though. The structure is still being worked out.

Also if anyone gets an ASIC, when it stops being profitable for you, hit me up I would like to take it apart, I will buy it from you obviously. I have a feeling an oscilloscope and some differential power analysis could explain a lot about the inner workings. This is what I do for a day job. Red team hardware testing for a defence company - FIPS 140-3 mainly, and crypto software RCE/exploit dev. [mistfpga is not my day job.]

If you come across any more info like this please post it here.

Hurm, seeing as reverse engineering hardware is legal in the UK if you do it for compatibility reasons, could I get a grant for this? heh. (jk)

edit: The more I read up on this the more it seems these people would know the most and up-to-date information about the interaction between equihash and hardware… It is probably worth reaching out to them…

Thanks!