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What is the most lightweight proof-of-work algorithm?
I know litecoin was created back in the day using Scrypt as to make it more lightweight but also harder to build ASIC hardware from - so everyday computers could mine. Are there other algorithms one should be aware of nowadays? Possibly ones that require little resources and make it impractical to build ASICs.
Email affiliation for an undergraduate student with a complex university address
Imagine I'm doing research on my own, and studying at a university. I publish this research, get accepted, and now I have to provide my affiliation. I have no problems of course using my university and the department I'm studying for, and in fact, I want to. However, I've read (on this site) that using my personal @gmail.com email looks unprofessional even if you provide the university as affiliation.
Does selfish mining actually give an advantage in the absence of transaction fees, difficulty changes, and economic effects?
I am reading the Cornell selfish mining paper. In it, their main argument is that a selfish miner can increase the ratio of the blocks he mines relative to the honest miners. I do not dispute this. However, to my understanding, merely denying others their blocks does not help you; just because everyone else is getting fewer blocks doesn't mean you're getting more.
What are the differences in these methods of creating wallets offline?
The problem with using an operating system like Windows to create these password-protected wallet is that you could still be offline (not connected to the internet), but if you have some sort of virus installed, they could copy your wallet, get your password that you'd type in, and store it locally. Then as soon as you connect it to the internet, they would send all this info to their servers and you're wallets would now be breached.
Blockchain parser for transaction level details
I'm looking for transaction level data for both inputs and outputs. The znort block parser returns the type of data I'm looking for, however it doesn't seem to detect multisig transactions. Has anyone updated the code? There's another parser written by John Ratcliff which properly detects the multisig transactions, however this does not return transaction level data. Has anyone modified this code to return individual inputs and outputs?
Should I write a paper on open-source software I've built?
I'd like to write a paper about a specific open-source software project that I've built but I'm puzzled whether it would be appropriate to write a paper about it. After all, not many important software projects were published in the form of a publication. Edit: as a concrete example, this is one project I've built: http://lmatteis.github.io/void-graph/ - it can visualize RDF structures as a dynamic graph which can be saved in SVG and used in presentations or slides.
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