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I've seen so much discussion lately on various forums about where miners are going to go next, now that scrypt has been on a decline.
I just want to get an idea of what the mining community thinks about some of the newer algorithms that are cropping up, and gaining some popularity.

The most prominent ones that I've come across are:

-X11 (pretty interesting, but don't know much about it)
-Scrypt-N (Seems to be the most recognized of the alternative scrypt algos)
-Quark (Seems less popular).
-Scrypt (will you just stick with scrypt, and join the ASIC train?).
-PoS (going for a PoS coin(s), on a pool that pays out in a PoS coin).
-Scrypt-Jane (Seems similar to x11, not sure though)

Of course, there are several others, but these are the ones I know of. I can add more to the poll if needed.

Feel free to comment on why you voted what you did, and if you have any particular coin that you're fond of.

I want this to help myself and others get an idea of where the mining trends could be going, because right now it seems to be a total toss-up.

From an ATI GPU miner, I'm not a fan of any of those, interestingly.  X11 is atm not implemented for NVidia miners. Not that I personally care, but it should be inclusive. Scrypt and variants are power hogs and stress hardware, so they are a bad idea with rising temperature.

Those PoS pools are actually scrypt mining. Buying and holding PoS coins, that may be profitable, but I'm not very very interested in speculating. I have 2 of those coins, but meh ... 

Check out http://hvc.1gh.com/, http://dwarfpool.com/ and http://www.ypool.net/ Here you can mine most remaining algos.  Regarding low power use, I like heavycoin.

Only thing that makes x11 interesting is that gpus remain cool , otherwise there is nothing new in it.

Cool, I'll check those out. Thanks.

I decided to try my smallest rig on x11 last night, my cards run ~20c cooler, which is pretty awesome.