I honestly don't get this whole anti-GPU stance.
You guys probably have all hi-end iSomethingmeaningless 100+ processors in your boxes.

Surpass BTC... in what terms?
Market cap? I don't think so. What BTC is: a replacement for long-distance, at-least-2-zeros transactions, also compatible with a lot of internet services... but too slow for brick-n-mortar. In terms of adoption it will be surpassed in the near future.

The extra privacy of cryptonote coins could be their driving force... or their biggest problem. For more traditional solutions, I see multi-pow as a step forward in building something meant to last.

Hello CIYAM, thanks for the warning!

I am surprised to know members here sell their accounts. I assume that means they're not flush with money as everybody says?
I have a pretty well considered profile on a long-standing website but I'd never sell it!

But then, from where does the hashrate come from? I cannot quite believe they are all FPGAs.

Honestly, I grow increasingly confident there might be an elite of miners with access to better kernels, especially the case for X algos... but there are likely other surprising candidates...

Memory isn't very useful in hashing.
AMD should seriously consider doing mining-oriented cards with a single 64 bit controller but a big (40 CU) die.

No it isn't. Put that in your head: every single algorithm can be ASIC'ed. It's as simple as that.
By contrast, multiple algorithms cannot, unless you multiply your investment and risk.
Floating point? Really? They don't give the same results even across different models of the same processors let alone different architectures. Validation would thus have to go through an accurate, deterministic, hardware-independant path. Not going to happen.

Ah, by the way: computation does not belong to CPUs anymore. It hasn't been that for at least 10 years.

And I'd fully agree with you tromp! By contrast, original scrypt is compute bound and neoscrypt seems to be even more so.

Arithmetic intensity, also known as ALU:TEX ratio... anyhow if it's not for GPUs then I guess this is the future of CPU mining?

I am very confused and I cannot make any sense of what you just wrote.

Why don't you look at the documentation on GPU programming?
Original scrypt was already compute bound. Neoscrypt is even more compute bound. People in GPU programming would go great lengths to have half the arithmetic intensity original scrypt had.

I'll ask you again: what does "memory intensive" mean? Fetching some memory every once in a while isn't an "intensive" operation.

Considering the massive amount of computation, what does "memory intensive" mean?

I have a lot of trouble understanding.
Claimed to be harder on memory, takes 20 rounds of salsa (already too much to be memory-bound) adding other 20 rounds of chacha?
Half the memory amount, paper claims to be "1.25 times more memory intensive"... due to cache effects I assume?
Anyway, scrypt was compute bound... I've been looking at this for a few days and I cannot understand what's the whole point. 

Yes indeed! Both Qubit and Groestl are fairly nice algos they should have got more success. Unfortunately Q2C is dead and GRS... I'd rather not comment on it. Qubit, groestl or groestl-myr all make more sense than X^1something so bad they had so limited success!

What is the place of DRK?

Their anonimization tech was based on obfuscation as opposed to real cryptographic strength as far as I understood.
VTC rolled out stealth wallets which seem superior in nature.
If that's still not enough for you, here goes CryptoNote (even though I'm not 100% at home with them).

If I'd be the dev, I'd honestly make me some questions at that point. Or maybe not.

To be honest, I only see it mentioned here. I'm afraid only MYR is close in terms of mentioning. Sure I had difficulty back when I searched for more info on it, honestly, I was fairly surprised and I assumed it was just dead!

Only if you can take bet on someone releasing this new kernel (if not, get VLIW). Half of it is already published but it is not known if we'll get to see the other half.

Opened already? Talk about listening to your userbase! 

Fuserleer, why GPUs used to be ASICs but are now generic processors?

I wouldn't buy a 6000 card right now. Should a series 7000 card kernel be released, you'll be left in the dust.

I don't care. I haven't even bothered cashing out from the pool. That says all.

I was thinking about selling them for VTC however, or perhaps some XMR. Beware it's an epic sell of over half a LTC LOL

Multi-pow going beyond asic-resistant to something which allows everyone to keep on mining the same coin with less worries?

To those saying a asic-proof coin cannot exist: can you guess why GPUs used to be ASICs but they are now generic processors?