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| Gavin Andresen
| Informational
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|- style="background-color: #ffcfcf"
| [[bip-0052.mediawiki|52]]
| Consensus (hard fork)
| Durable, Low Energy Bitcoin PoW
| Michael Dubrovsky, Bogdan Penkovsky
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| Consensus (soft fork)
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Title: Durable, Low Energy Bitcoin PoW
Authors: Michael Dubrovsky <mike+bip@powx.org>
Bogdan Penkovsky <bogdan+bip@powx.org>
Status: Draft
Status: Closed
Type: Specification
Assigned: 2021-05-13
License: BSD-2-Clause OR OPUBL-1.0
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PoWx will also be publishing the designs of the current optical miner prototypes in the near term under an open-source hardware license.

== Acknowledgments ==

We thank all the members of the Bitcoin community who have already given us feedback over the last several years as well as others in the optical computing community and beyond that have given their input.
== Changelog ==

* 2026-06-18:
** Updated to Closed after the proposal has not made progress for several years and [https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/Vrh7oED9b9Q/m/TrCEKRjNAAAJ attempts to contact the authors] did not succeed.
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== Acknowledgments ==

We thank all the members of the Bitcoin community who have already given us feedback over the last several years as well as others in the optical computing community and beyond that have given their input.

[1] M. Dubrovsky et al. Towards Optical Proof of Work, CES conference (2020) https://assets.pubpub.org/xi9h9rps/01581688887859.pdf

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