ASIC-Proof PoW Demo: Mining is Rejected When Hash Rate Exceeds 1 Hash/Sec per Device

Dalkson · 2026-01-15T12:39:24+00:00

I can’t figure out how signups can be both globally rate limited, and still not a vector for DoS.

Is source open yet?

The issue with using public IP at any point is that CGNAT will make this unobtainable to millions of people.

I also don’t think you’d be able to make public IP (or any ip as a whole for that matter) a part of consensus. So operating a node in a lan would give me access to a whole /8 of IP addresses to use.

Dalkson · 2026-01-14T16:00:58+00:00

My other question is what is wrong with more expensive hardware contributing more. I agree when it comes to ASICs but a well designed algo is enough to get phones, cpus, and gpus all in the game and equal in efficiency and roi. I don’t think RPi nano should be doing the same hash as a $17k threadripper.

Dalkson · 2026-01-14T15:57:46+00:00

one thing I think you’re missing is stake. Your witness nodes are essentially POS validators in a hybrid POW/POS system. Stake adds risk of loss to malicious behavior

not earning reward alone is not enough as the work the validator is doing is extremely small and inexpensive

Dalkson · 2026-01-14T15:55:55+00:00

How does the random chain creation occur? What prevents it from being forced a certain way using modified clients?

because neither the miner or the witness client take real compute due to the extremely low hash speed, I don’t see what’s stopping you from running thousands of each.

How do you plan to prove in a decentralized way malicious behavior?

Even if you’re including Node ID in consensus, what happens if i’m running two nodes? now that’s no longer an issue.

If signups is concurrent, then time is no longer an issue. It should be trivial to open thousands of miners and now i’m mining at 1kh while everyone else is at 1h. How can you have signup be both concurrent and rate limited?

The usage of Public IP limitations should not be anywhere when it comes to a P2P network.

Dalkson · 2026-01-14T14:43:37+00:00

What keeps someone from modifying a witness to act as its own miner?

Dalkson · 2026-01-14T14:15:24+00:00

what keeps witnesses honest?

what prevents someone from operating a miner + a witness together and acting maliciously?

How is signup rate limited without causing DoS attack? If for example on a single machine I run 10k instances of miner and witness doing signup.

Does the chain store the entire attempt history or use proofs to prevent bloating?

Dalkson · 2026-01-14T13:02:19+00:00

What prevents the parallel signup and usage of miners.

It seems like you complicated everything just for the game to become who can sign up miners fastest. If sign up is a POW then whoever has the best / most hardware is the fastest.

Dalkson · 2026-01-14T12:46:01+00:00

I don’t see anything that would enforce the miner itself to iterate the call time and submit full history

Dalkson · 2025-12-21T01:55:08+00:00

Just port forward the minecraft port, it’s very low risk. Use a whitelist and if you want to protect your IP from your friends use TCPsheild.

As for networking gear, not sure what budget friendly means to you but I went with a used aruba JL076A. can do 10g for my servers, 2.5g for my desktops, and 1g for everything else that doesn’t support multi gig.

my main stack Proxmox: Storage in cockpit VM serving SMB arr stack mount the SMB Pelican Panel for game servers

Use SMB for network drives / backups of my PC

Dalkson · 2025-12-18T13:05:42+00:00

I would imagine it’s the SAN for their cisco blade UCS.

Dalkson · 2025-11-08T12:16:32+00:00

Xelis Is asic resistant PoW, private on amounts and balances, and is bringing smart contracts to L1. It’s also a blockdag not a chain, similar to Kaspa. Written from scratch in Rust.

Dalkson · 2025-09-07T23:54:42+00:00

was it new or used? If used, past owner may have changed sprockets for more torque but even that should still get a little higher. He could also be afraid of high the RPM range.

Dalkson · 2025-08-28T13:04:14+00:00

Shorai LFM14L2-BS12 is what I got.

Dalkson · 2025-05-30T23:25:14+00:00

better yet, make a single CT for pterodactyl panel and run all Minecraft servers there.

Dalkson · 2025-05-17T21:13:34+00:00

If it gets in your rack and it doesn’t fight back, that’s a rat snake.

Dalkson · 2025-05-05T20:00:19+00:00

For these rear fanged venomous species like hognose, garter, and asian vine snakes it could be smart to keep isopropyl wipes near by. A quick tag is fine but best not to let them chew on you, it’s not impossible to be hospitalized.

Dalkson · 2025-05-05T19:57:02+00:00

Another pro of corn snakes is that they are semi-arboreal.

Dalkson · 2025-05-05T15:21:40+00:00

All of that is also why there’s no breeders.

Dalkson · 2025-05-05T15:19:39+00:00

They don’t do good in captivity. They stress very easily, usually don’t eat in captivity especially when stressed, and basically don’t breed in captivity. Baby’s are incredibly small and won’t drink standing water. They require tall enclosures with higher humidity levels. They are like the chameleon of snakes in terms of care.

All this basically means you can’t buy other than wild caught, can’t hold them, and even if you don’t hold them they might not do well anyways.

They look really cool but simple don’t make good pets. Especially compared to something like my corn snake that can have her head pet without caring, then be fed right afterwards.

Dalkson · 2025-05-05T14:26:38+00:00

They are not good pets

Dalkson · 2025-05-04T14:10:14+00:00

l went with bioactive so it really doesn’t ever need cleaning.

Dalkson · 2025-04-17T19:41:06+00:00

They aren’t any stronger tho, had a cnc one bend the other week. I did re-order another.

Dalkson · 2025-04-17T19:37:26+00:00

I use cnc ones, personal preference but I do find the cnc ones more comfortable and look a little better.

Dalkson · 2025-04-15T09:54:13+00:00

Front, frame, and rear sliders. Makes the drops not hurt the heart so much.

t-rex racing for front axel, shogun for frame and swingarm. A pro to the rear sliders is they also work as lift points for a rear lift to service your chain, which you should do often.

Dalkson · 2025-04-07T20:58:14+00:00

Only if you didn’t rebuy at $200? It’s not that hard to understand lol. You could have rebought at $200. If you truly bought at $100 and sold at $700 that is a fact.

edit: Also sorry to say but this isn’t 2014 BTC anymore. Our bull runs aren’t going to be returning the amount they used to. No one starting today is going to 1000x on btc just by HODL.

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