This week's episode is a two-parter!

First up, I talk with John Tromp, inventor of the Cuckoo Cycle Proof of Work algorithm. We discuss what it means to be an egalitarian proof of work and how Cuckoo Cycle targets consumer hardware rather than industrial ASICs. We talk about the puzzle being solved by the algorithm itself, and also discuss what types of performance we should expect with optimized CPU and GPU mining software.

After that, I'm very excited to share a short conversation I had with John McAfee about Monero. He's been mentioning Monero on a number of TV networks lately, and we talk about why he likes the project.

Related Links:

• John Tromp's blog is https://tromp.github.io/
• The Cuckoo Cycle project can be found at https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo/
• An interesting article on Cuckoo Cycle is at http://cryptorials.io/beyond-hashcash-proof-work-theres-mining-hashing/ 

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Music featured in the show is "The Grind" by Justin Maher and used under a Creative Commons License. https://musopen.org/music/1652/justin-mahar/the-grind/