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AsicBoost - A Speedup for Bitcoin Mining — mentioned by wslh

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:00:11 GMT

I'm looking forward to seeing similar work on SHA-256. It would be fascinating if AI could discover previously unknown weaknesses in reduced-round variants. It would also be interesting whether AI could discover new algorithmic optimizations for SHA-256 similar in spirit to AsicBoost[1]. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.00575

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AsicBoost - A Speedup for Bitcoin Mining — mentioned by wslh

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 20:30:28 GMT

It seems there are intersections with the history of PoW mining (CPU => GPUs => FPGAs => ASICs) since we don't need the full power of GPUs for training or inference. For example, ASICBoost [1][2][3] was/is a technique to improve PoW by ~20%. [1] https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/asicboost/ [2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.00575 [3] https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2017/04/06/bitcoins-new-con...

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AsicBoost - A Speedup for Bitcoin Mining — mentioned by sanxiyn

Mon, 19 Sep 2022 03:14:03 GMT

I must note that this in fact happened in the past (AsicBoost). Currently, I don't think there is AsicBoost-like secret information, but you can't be sure. https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.00575

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AsicBoost - A Speedup for Bitcoin Mining — mentioned by zkms

Fri, 02 Feb 2018 18:50:22 GMT

> it's basically two rounds of SHA-256. There's a bit more to this; there's clever optimisations you can do (based on the Merkle–Damgård structure of SHA256 and the format/semantics of the data being hashed): http://www.mit.edu/~jlrubin/public/pdfs/Asicboost.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.00575.pdf

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AsicBoost - A Speedup for Bitcoin Mining — mentioned by tromp

Sun, 09 Apr 2017 18:44:01 GMT

The AsicBoost inventors also wrote a good technical explanation at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.00575v1

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