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		adastra22 on Nov 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've bu... SCrypt was thought to be memory hard. It was not, and making asics for it ended up being pretty trivial.

tromp on Nov 18, 2022 [–]

Scrypt is memory hard. The reason ASICs were easy to make was the small memory requirement chosen to make PoW verification not too slow.

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