ProgPoW: What is it and why does it matter?
The Ethereum community is buzzing with the word ProgPoW. But if you’re anything like me, you may not know exactly what it means. The term stands for Programmatic Proof-of-Work, a new proof-of-work algorithm designed to even the playing field between ASIC and GPU miners. Proponents of this new approach want to actively retune Ethereum’s mining …