ProgPoW author Kristy-Leigh Minehan has resigned as Chief Technical Officer of Core Scientific to focus on pushing ProgPow. Minehan made the decision in order to remove any potential conflicts and pilot the progress of Ethereum‘s improvement proposal. Programmatic Proof-of-Work (ProgPoW) is a GPU-tuned extension of Ethash that minimizes the efficiency gap available to fixed-function hardware. What triggered Minehan’s resignation from Core Scientific? Last week Minehan was uninvited from the Ethereum Classic Summit. This was due to Core Scientific’s connections with self-declared Satoshi Nakamoto Craig Wright and Calvin Ayre. Minehan broke the news of her resignation in a Twitter post on
