TIL How ASIC boost works.
You have X amount of data to hash from a block. Because SHA256 takes chunks (64byte) at a time, you can feed it all the 'constant' chunks first then 'save' the 'midstate' before introducing the chunks that need to change.
This saves ~20%. Idk why it's that % but I intend to find out.
There are a couple of pages on this in The Blocksize War that I read, super interesting
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I should read that...
Highly recommend it
i second this. great book. easy read too. goes pretty quick but very informative