Hello Steemit
ETH Piper Developer Miriam opened the Ethanol Improvement (EIP) 958 proposal on GetHap on March 30, introducing the idea of a possible total split in the ETH protocol to invalidate the ASIC chipset.
Vlad Zamper, another developer at Eth, put the same question to Twitter on March 28. The result was that 57% of the respondents voted yes.
Both developers' surveys appear amid rumors that China-based Betmain is about to ship the first Asch compatible devices with Ethash. The Ethash is a work-proof algorithm (PoW) used by Ethrium and a variety of other alternative currencies.
The Ethylene Release Paper from Putrein suggests that the protocol already has double resistance to mining centrality.
First, the algorithm of the two metals requires the return of hash to "randomly selected" data from transactions in the previous block. As Eth contracts can include any kind of computing, "the Asic Eth chips will basically be ASIC chips for the general account - a better CPU."
The second method of defense is "poisoning the well," which Vitalik describes as "a adaptable human solution, not a technical one." If a particular type of computing becomes prevalent, traditional miners can enter "a large number of contracts in the Blockchin network specifically designed to block some ASIC chips."
The QuentinLife website said in February that Betmain's profit exceeded the US chip manufacturing company NVIDIA in 2017. Bernstein analysts estimate that Betmain's profits range from $ 3-4 billion to 2017, with 70-80 percent of the LBtc and ASEC mining equipment market.
The non-formal Eth Survey comes in the wake of Monroe's rejection of a central hawk force last month. Ricardo Spagna warned Monroe that the currency protocol would change every six months to frustrate ASIC monopolies. Rumors about the potential spread of mining equipment to Ethash-compliant chips have affected Eth markets, some commentators said.