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tomatovole
919 days ago
This is not true for all crypto coins. A small proportion of mining hash functions are deliberately designed to thwart ASICs, e.g.
https://github.com/tevador/RandomX
. It's a cat-and-mouse game, though: CryptoNight was designed to fulfill the same role, but ultimately failed:
https://monerodocs.org/proof-of-work/cryptonight/
.