ASIC

...et. However, Ethereum's memory-hard mining algorithm (Ethash) is designed to be ASIC-resistant, promoting a more decentralized mining ecosystem. The difficulty adju...

...rged timeline. In practice, the fastest SHA-256 hardware available is commodity ASIC or high-end CPU hardware, and the difference in single-core performance between...

...mputational power, Scrypt was intended to resist the advantage that specialized ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) mining hardware held over general-pur...

...SHA-256 proof-of-work algorithm, identical to Bitcoin. This means that the same ASIC mining hardware can be used to mine either chain, and miners can switch between...