What is ProgPoW?
ProgPoW—short for Programmatic Proof‑of‑Work—is an updated Ethash variant designed to improve CPU/GPU mining and blunt ASIC dominance. Created in 2018 by the ifdefelse team, it randomises workloads to favour GPUs; the proposal has sparked years of debate, audits and shifting decisions within Ethereum, including polls, petitions and concerns over governance.