17:38:14 http://globalboost-y.com/ 17:38:32 So on an asic resistance thread, some dude posted a link to this garbage 17:38:51 And I knee-jerk banned him, because it looked like automated spam 17:39:09 Then looked closer and they do claim asic resistance, but I can't find anywhere that says what they use 17:39:30 I'm trying to evaluate whether the ban was unreasonable or not, can someone take a look? 17:40:10 it's right there on the front page: POW yescript GPU, ASIC & FPGA resistant 17:40:22 What is yescrypt 17:41:00 https://www.openwall.com/yescrypt/ 17:41:08 it's not actually ASIC resistant 17:41:10 First I'm hearing of it, I assumed it was marketing speak 17:41:32 Ah thanks, that's what I was looking for 17:41:49 So it's not actually novel and they're calling their security by obscurity resistance 17:41:55 Yeah the removal was reasonable then 17:42:00 IIRC they made a variant called yespower that was supposed to be used for cryptomining 17:42:44 Is this reasonable discussion in asic resistance threads, or just security by obscurity? 17:43:14 I think it's reasonable to discuss it 17:43:21 here is yespower: https://www.openwall.com/yespower/ 17:43:39 "yespower in particular is designed to be CPU-friendly, GPU-unfriendly, and FPGA/ASIC-neutral" 17:45:25 So it's not asic resistant? 17:45:44 https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/ggdp8e/z/fq2gwzn 17:45:49 There is the comment btw 17:46:01 I've approved it now, I'll remove the ban at some point soon 17:46:05 Can't do it from mobile 17:46:54 the yespower website has some "ASIC resistance" definition and explains what they mean by it 17:47:40 I think all these projects are similar to Litecoin in 2011 - someone said it's ASIC resistant, so it must be 17:47:51 until ASICs showed up 17:49:03 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 17:49:19 no magic sauce other than that 18:44:47 seems like a useless comment 18:45:13 it doesn't add to the discussion at all 18:52:40 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!' 18:53:25 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 :/ 18:55:35 You could make another called monero-quality-discussions, where you deep six the crap, and enjoy seeing spammers whinge ^_^. 18:58:10 oh, I actually have two telegram channels that I rule with an iron fist 18:58:19 absolutely unaccountable for my moderation actions, its great 18:58:37 lots of quality discussion, people even compliment the rooms for being topical :) 20:44:03 nice 20:44:27 I personally would lean toward the latter. I'm interested in facts and solid info, not BS. 20:45:06 on the openldap mailing lists I have some subscribers on permanent moderation because 99% of their posts are inane or even indecipherable 20:45:35 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