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ASIC

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Application-Specific Integrated Circuit, specialized hardware designed to efficiently perform a particular computation (e.g. Bitcoin mining). ASICs can dominate PoW mining for certain algorithms.

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$ETH Ethereum
Blockchain and Mining
...et. However, Ethereum's memory-hard mining algorithm (Ethash) is designed to be ASIC-resistant, promoting a more decentralized mining ecosystem. The difficulty adju...
$SOL Solana
Proof of History Sequence
...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...
$DOGE Dogecoin
Background
...mputational power, Scrypt was intended to resist the advantage that specialized ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) mining hardware held over general-pur...
$BCH Bitcoin Cash
Network Architecture
...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...

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