Ethereum Community Comes out Against Controversial ProgPoW

Cointelegraph

Published Feb 26, 2020 11:19PM ET

Updated Feb 27, 2020 01:02AM ET

Ethereum Community Comes out Against Controversial ProgPoW

Opposition continues to grow against implementation of the controversial Programmatic Proof-of-Work (ProgPoW) proposal in the Ethereum community.

ProgPoW is an ASIC-resistant PoW algorithm meant to replace ETHhash, the current hashing algorithm for the platform. First mooted two years ago, it suddenly reemerged as a concrete plan set for the middle of this year following a call of core developers on February 21.

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