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#### ASIC Resistance
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-ASIC-resistance is fundamentally achieved on an economic basis. Due to use of 18 sub-hash algorithms it is expected that the R&D costs will mirror that of building 18 independent ASICs. This moves the economic viability goal-posts by an order of magnitude. For as long as the costs of ASIC development remain in relative parity to the costs of consumer grade CPUs, a RandomHash ASIC will always remain "not worth it" for a "rational economic actor".
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+ASIC-resistance is fundamentally achieved on an economic basis. Due to the use of 18 sub-hash algorithms, it is expected that the R&D costs of a RandomHash ASIC will mirror that of building 18 independent ASICs. This moves the economic viability goal-posts away by an order of magnitude. For as long as the costs of general ASIC development remain in relative parity to the costs of consumer grade CPUs as of today, a RandomHash ASIC will always remain "not worth it" for a "rational economic actor".
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-Furthermore, RandomHash offers a wide ASIC-breaking attack surface. This is due to it's branch-heavity, serial, recursive nature and heavy dependence on sub-algorithms for hashing and generating randomness. By making minor tweaks to the high-level algorithm, an ASIC design can be mostly invalidated and send back the drawing board.
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+Furthermore, RandomHash offers a wide ASIC-breaking attack surface. This is due to it's branch-heavy,serial, recursive nature and heavy dependence on sub-algorithms. By making minor tweaks to the high-level algorithm, or changing a sub-algorithm, an ASIC design can be mostly invalidated and sent back the drawing board.
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-This is true since ASIC designs tend to mirror the assembly structure of the algorithm rather than the high-level algorithm itself. Thus by making relatively minor tweaks to the high-level algorithm but that result in major assembly-level changes, the ASIC design is obsoleted. So long as this policy is maintained by the PascalCoin Developers and Community, ASIC-resistance is guaranteed.
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+This is true since ASIC designs tend to mirror the assembly structure of an algorithm rather than the high-level algorithm itself. Thus by making relatively minor tweaks to the high-level algorithm that necessarily result in significant low-level assembly restructuring of that algorhtm, the ASIC design is made obsolete. So long as this "tweak-to-break-ASIC" policy is maintained by the PascalCoin Developers and Community, ASIC resistance is guaranteed.
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#### RandomHash Variations
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Herman Schoenfeld