How Monero's RandomX proof of work resists ASIC mining
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Alcazar Security
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Summary
Monero's proof of work, called RandomX, is designed to resist ASIC mining by requiring miners to run random programs on a virtual machine with heavy memory usage, rather than repeating a fixed hash function like Bitcoin. This approach makes efficient mining resemble normal CPU workloads, keeping mining decentralized and accessible to regular hardware.
Key quotes
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RandomX was built to do the opposite. It tries to make efficient mining look as much like a normal CPU workload as possible.
Monero takes the candidate block header plus a nonce. It also uses an older block hash as a medium.
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