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by tromp 4460 days ago
Yes, why not a PoW that's all of

ASIC resistant

GPU resistant

botnet resistant

My Cuckoo Cycle PoW (https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo) configured to require for instance 7GB of memory, is all of the above. And is very power friendly, since only 5% of the runtime is computation and 95% is waiting for main memory random access latency...