I assume there are mathematician farms where they are no longer born but grown for the purpose of finding any possible ways to cut steps from hashing.
Do the chips still run this plain vanilla sha256 algo, or have they found some steps that can be skipped? Things like not calculating the final steps if you notice that there won't be enough zeroes.
I do pay a lot of attention to these things, and to the best of my knowledge, nobody has considered something like this. I'm not sure it would be possible, but it would make for some interesting hardware level optimizations. There's always a chance that some company has figured something out but is keeping it secret to maintain a margin over their competitors.
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I assume there are mathematician farms where they are no longer born but grown for the purpose of finding any possible ways to cut steps from hashing.
Do the chips still run this plain vanilla sha256 algo, or have they found some steps that can be skipped? Things like not calculating the final steps if you notice that there won't be enough zeroes.
I do pay a lot of attention to these things, and to the best of my knowledge, nobody has considered something like this. I'm not sure it would be possible, but it would make for some interesting hardware level optimizations. There's always a chance that some company has figured something out but is keeping it secret to maintain a margin over their competitors.