Testnet, AMD bug, and Reducing Compute — ProgPoW Testnet The testnet is almost up to block 250,000 and has a number of miners, pools, and clients testing. You can observe the status of the network here: http://boot.gangnam.ethdevops.io/ Details for connecting to the testnet are here: https://gist.github.com/holiman/c8944c8be26f798e391822b9a70cb91c#gistcomment-2783941 AMD OpenCL Compiler Bug We have discovered what appears to be a bug in the AMD OpenCL…

After gaining some mainstream press, we’ve started to receive a number of questions about ProgPoW. We’d like to address a few of the most common. Q. What’s your stance on Ethereum governance questions? We don’t have one. We think it’s best left up to the community to answer questions like…

Performance and Tuning — Overview ProgPoW — a short-hand form for ‘Programmatic Proof-of-Work’ (sometimes colloquially called ProgPoW, or PorgyPoW, after the eponymous Porg from Star Wars VII: The Last Jedi), is a GPU-tuned extension of Ethash that minimizes the efficiency gap available to fixed-function hardware. As a design paper, this document presents the technical specifications…