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Topic: Request for SHA-3 coin (Read 1973 times)

newbie
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May 22, 2013, 02:38:24 PM
#9
Yes, I was going to say, Yacoin uses SHA-3 with chacha in its scrypt implementation instead of the sha256 with salsa that litecoin uses.

So if you're looking for a SHA-3 coin, there you have it. It's already on an exchange too. Though last I checked it wasn't worth mining but that may have changed.
sr. member
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The cryptocoin watcher
May 22, 2013, 02:17:37 PM
#8
YaCoin already uses SHA3 Keccak (on top of Scrypt).
legendary
Activity: 1020
Merit: 1000
May 22, 2013, 02:00:10 PM
#7
Variable output of the sponge function of SHA-3 function could be used dynamically for SHA-3 coin.
hero member
Activity: 686
Merit: 500
Bitbuy
May 02, 2013, 03:15:47 PM
#6
Make a coin for botnets? no thanks

Can't SHA-3 run on GPUs as well? That would make botnets much less profitable really fast. Scrypt is much better for Botnets, since the advantage of GPUs over CPUs isn't that huge.

It can. But it will take time to create such mining soft.

Then they will have to launch the coin together with a SHA-3 GPU miner Smiley
legendary
Activity: 2142
Merit: 1010
Newbie
May 02, 2013, 02:42:28 PM
#5
Make a coin for botnets? no thanks

Can't SHA-3 run on GPUs as well? That would make botnets much less profitable really fast. Scrypt is much better for Botnets, since the advantage of GPUs over CPUs isn't that huge.

It can. But it will take time to create such mining soft.
hero member
Activity: 686
Merit: 500
Bitbuy
May 02, 2013, 02:41:04 PM
#4
Make a coin for botnets? no thanks

Can't SHA-3 run on GPUs as well? That would make botnets much less profitable really fast. Scrypt is much better for Botnets, since the advantage of GPUs over CPUs isn't that huge.
member
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Merit: 10
May 02, 2013, 02:39:22 PM
#3
Make a coin for botnets? no thanks
legendary
Activity: 1133
Merit: 1050
May 02, 2013, 02:38:45 PM
#2
Hey, whoever is going to launch a new altcoin! Why don't u use Keccak-256? We need something non-archaic (not SHA256 nor Scrypt). SHA-3 will let to bring into mining business new people, who don't own ASICs nor GPU rigs. Could be an interesting experiment.  Wink

+1
legendary
Activity: 2142
Merit: 1010
Newbie
May 02, 2013, 02:33:07 PM
#1
Hey, whoever is going to launch a new altcoin! Why don't u use Keccak-256? We need something non-archaic (not SHA256 nor Scrypt). SHA-3 will let to bring into mining business new people, who don't own ASICs nor GPU rigs. Could be an interesting experiment.  Wink
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