Ethereum [ETH]: The ProgPoW team admits to collaborating with Nvidia and AMD

The programmatic test of the work (ProgPoW) the team has actually admitted that they are working with both Nvidia is AMD. However, they do not say what the Ethereum Foundation has to say about the problem.

According to someone called IfDefElse;

"We were lucky enough to have an email review that included engineers from the Ethereum Foundation, Ethereum Core Devs, Nvidia and AMD. The engineers Nvidia and AMD gave the algorithm a generally positive review. "

The Ethereum Core Devs are not specified nor their answer. On the other hand, AMD would respond by answering two main concerns;

1. Manufacturers of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) would not be able to quickly examine the open source code and create a specialized ASIC to copy it if the Ethash PoW Has the algorithm been replaced with ProgPoW?
2. Would the miners of the GPU find it difficult to draw on Ethereum using ProgPoW?

An AMD engineer said he agreed that although it is possible to create an ASIC for ProgPoW, one would need to "Specific knowledge of the GPU". While, on the other hand, an Ethereum mining hardware called Linzhi, says they are able to accelerate ProgPoW from 3 to 8 times. – This is disputed by the only known person of the ProgPoW team, Kristy-Leigh Menehan.

The new ASICS development of Linzhi

The ProgPoW team states that the current Ethereum ASICs are only twice as efficient as GPUs. This means that one would need two GPUs for an ASIC. linzhi it is currently developing Ethash, a new ASICS for the current Ethereum PoW algorithm that will provide a small efficiency gain of about 2x or a maximum of 4x depending on the ProgPoW team.

Ethash is the PoW function in the blockchain currencies based on Ethereum. Ethash is currently used by Ethereum as a PoW hard-memory algorithm that works well enough on commodity GPUs. If the algorithm is changed, the exercise will become totally useless. This is because, with the process that requires five months under optimistic estimates, it raises the question of whether there will not be a ProgPoW ASIC pending implementation.