Forking for ASIC Resistance
A battle is being fought within Ethereum: The fight for ProgPow.
ProgPow is a proposal to change Ethereum’s mining algorithm from Ethash (also known as Dagger-Hashimoto) to an ASIC-resistant mining algorithm called ProgPow. Discussions regarding the change have been ongoing since January 2019, when it was brought to light in a meeting of Ethereum core developers. Although ProgPow has been approved for inclusion in future hard forks, integration of ProgPow has been continuously pushed back and is now tentatively scheduled for July 2020.
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