82 - Defending ProgPoW with Kristy-Leigh Minehan
Oct 04, 2019•1 hr 14 min
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Episode description
Former CTO of Core Scientific and co creator of the Programmable Proof of Work hashing algorithm, Kristy-Leigh Minehan join POV Crypto for the second time to discuss ProgPoW and Ethereum. We cover the following topics.
- How and why ProgPoW was created
- The difference between ASIC & GPU miners and users
- Kristy’s experience with Ethereum governance.
- Leaving Core Scientific to defend ProgPoW
- Why EthHash fails to prevent ASICs
- The coming challenges for the transition from Eth1x to Eth2x
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