RE: The Great Gardin ASIC Dream3 Mar 2026 13:34
Usersteve: You posted
" so at the 60 step he could tell whether you will generate a winning hash or not. So we took him on board and said Raul you have the freedom to do whatever you want to improve and to see whether your work ... if you can improve it ... 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐅𝐏𝐆𝐀 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐂 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐨 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲, 𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 and they are ready if we want to design a chip"
I have doubts about what Gardin stated here!
Naik's work was about optimising SHA256, I read through it at least a year ago. I don't remember him being able to cut short the hashing at the 60th round and being able to determine that a particular has would not make the grade or not. Think about that ! For every hash Gaddin is suggesting Naik could know if was going to be successful or not, that implies 100% filtering of useless hashes.
My next point, the software used to create FPGAs/ASICs optimises/minimises logic gates. Not SHA256 !
Next, if the software did then everyone using it probably has the same results. So Naik's work and the patent was known to everyone in the hashing world.