On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Daniele Pinna via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > The recently published paper I referenced cite's the Cuckoo cycle algorithm, > discusses its limitations and explains how their proposed algorithm greatly > improves on it.
They discuss a very old version of the Cuckoo cycle paper, and I believe none of their analysis is applicable to the most recent revision. :( In any case, I commented more about functions of this class here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3n5nws/research_paper_asymmetric_proofofwork_based_on/cvl922x I don't believe changing the POW function is impossible in principle, but I expect it would only happen due to problems with the composition of current hash-power and not even if it were universally agreed that some other construction were technically better (though that is a high bar.) _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
