Peter Rizun spoke at BLISS about his ideas for a RISC-V system in BCH, potentially run in parallel to and eventually maybe even replacing Bitcoin script. Pretty radical change & suggestion, but might have enormous benefits.
Note that Vitalik also suggested moving the ETH EVM to RISC-V not even a month ago too, as Peter references in his talk.
Need a thread to monitor and discuss this trend in the industry as it plays out.
A concern to consider — what if an exploit is later found? In software it is easily patchable. However in hardware, how does that change? How would that be tackled?
imo, if enough institutions invested in the RISC-V hardware architecture, it could become the future architecture for BCH. The industry is leaning toward ARM for a reason, it’s way more efficient than x86. However, RISC-V is already comparable to ARM and even outperforms it in ultra-low-power scenarios while not as efficient as ARM in processors. It is still way more efficient than x86. Another bonus is that its open-source, royalty-free nature allows anyone to contribute, modify, and audit the architecture.
While its full potential isn’t realized yet in terms of innovation, the sky is the limit since anyone can contribute. I wish we could see more support for this! maybe ASIC manufacturer will be the first to lead this driven by incentives to mine NexaPoW for profits.