<p>Interested because if a reducer exists then Bitcoin mining pools would be able to use a fraction of their hash power to assert dominance on altcoins by regularly deploying 51% attacks on the altcoins that rely on Scrypt.</p>

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2021-05-16T22:59:13.950Z
Does this answer your question? [Will a bitcoin miner work for other currencies?](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/19760/will-a-bitcoin-miner-work-for-other-currencies)
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Understand that SHA256 miners don’t work on Skrypt today. I’m asking if a reduction from Scrypt to SHA256 is possible?
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Can Scrypt be reduced to SHA256 proof of work?
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# Can Scrypt be reduced to SHA256 proof of work?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-05-16)

Interested because if a reducer exists then Bitcoin mining pools would be able to use a fraction of their hash power to assert dominance on altcoins by regularly deploying 51% attacks on the altcoins that rely on Scrypt.

**Tags:** proof-of-work

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Does this answer your question? [Will a bitcoin miner work for other currencies?](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/19760/will-a-bitcoin-miner-work-for-other-currencies)  
> **username_0**: Understand that SHA256 miners don’t work on Skrypt today. I’m asking if a reduction from Scrypt to SHA256 is possible?  

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