Let's Talk ETC! #63 - Alex Tsankov of DappDirect.net: Recent 51% Attacks, ECIP-1049, ProgPOW & ASICs

Summary: Let's Talk ETC! provides timely news about ETC and related technologies including: Ethereum, Bitcoin, blockchains and more. Feel free to leave requests, questions and comments below. ETC website: https://ethereumclassic.org ETC blog: http://ethereumclassic.org/blog ETC Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/xy777au Christian Seberino's email: cs@etcplanet.org Christian Seberino's Twitter handle: @chris_seberino -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Info on some of the items we discussed can be found here: Alex Tsankov of DappDirect.net joins me for a discussion on the recent 51% attacks as well his ECIP-1049 proposal to change the ETC hashing algorithm to Keccak-256. The conversation delves into alternative mining algorithms such as Programmatic Proof of Work (ProgPOW), the futility of trying to create ASIC resistance algorithms and more. ECIP-1049: https://github.com/ethereumclassic/ECIPs/pull/8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are passionate about anything related to ETC, and have something to say, we'd love to discuss that with you on the show. We are always looking for interesting guests so don't be afraid to ask! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We would like to thank IOHK (Input Output Hong Kong) for funding this effort.