So on an asic resistance thread, some dude posted a link to this garbage

And I knee-jerk banned him, because it looked like automated spam

Then looked closer and they do claim asic resistance, but I can't find anywhere that says what they use

I'm trying to evaluate whether the ban was unreasonable or not, can someone take a look?

it's right there on the front page: POW yescript GPU, ASIC & FPGA resistant

What is yescrypt

it's not actually ASIC resistant

First I'm hearing of it, I assumed it was marketing speak

Ah thanks, that's what I was looking for

So it's not actually novel and they're calling their security by obscurity resistance

Yeah the removal was reasonable then

IIRC they made a variant called yespower that was supposed to be used for cryptomining

Is this reasonable discussion in asic resistance threads, or just security by obscurity?

I think it's reasonable to discuss it

here is yespower: openwall.com/yespower

"yespower in particular is designed to be CPU-friendly, GPU-unfriendly, and FPGA/ASIC-neutral"

So it's not asic resistant?

There is the comment btw

I've approved it now, I'll remove the ban at some point soon

Can't do it from mobile

the yespower website has some "ASIC resistance" definition and explains what they mean by it

I think all these projects are similar to Litecoin in 2011 - someone said it's ASIC resistant, so it must be

until ASICs showed up

I had a look at the source code, it's similar to scrypt, but it a lot more optimized for AVX, so it runs well on CPUs, that's all

no magic sauce other than that

seems like a useless comment

it doesn't add to the discussion at all

hyc: The question is whether it's on topic. And the libertarian base of the subreddit gets pissy when anything on topic gets removed, even if its useless/stupid. In this case I can see them arguing that 'newbies might want to know that its not actually asic resistant! We need our community to set everyone else straight!'

there's a lot of stuff that, if I was dictator with no accountability, I would remove in a heartbeat. Unfortunately the mods are stewards, not dictators :/

You could make another called monero-quality-discussions, where you deep six the crap, and enjoy seeing spammers whinge ^_^.

oh, I actually have two telegram channels that I rule with an iron fist

absolutely unaccountable for my moderation actions, its great

lots of quality discussion, people even compliment the rooms for being topical :)

nice

I personally would lean toward the latter. I'm interested in facts and solid info, not BS.

on the openldap mailing lists I have some subscribers on permanent moderation because 99% of their posts are inane or even indecipherable

once in a while they respond to someone else with a relevant question. once in a very long while. the rest of their posts I just discard immediately