Tomorrow.

Zergpool has switching on the smaller Equihash coins. Most of them except ZEC and ZEN. Been doing pretty good so far.

What's the difference between this and https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4511718.0. If the other one is 2.0, why is this the thread that is most active?

I know its been a very long time since anyone has posted in this thread, but I think it is still very relevant. I am an ASIC n00b. This will be the first ASIC I have ever bought. What has surprised me so far is how little profitability has changed since these were announced. I'm assuming batch 1 was very small. Something tells me batch 2 won't be, and profitability will have a drastic decrease. Still, I see a few assumptions on here that I don't think are true.

1) People assume Bitmain won't ship out miners if they could make more mining.

This may be true, but you have to consider the amount of profit they can make producing these things. Considering the numbers they can release, I can't imagine they would make more mining with these than they can make by selling these, when they can produce them so fast. They may mine to test them and keep changes in difficulty more stable I suppose, but to think they would make more mining than they make pumping out mass-produced hardware with high profit margins seems highly unlikely to me.

2) People assume the difficulty spike will be proportional to the number of new ASIC miners.

In theory this sounds good, but do you really think GPU miners will stick around if they are losing money? For example, if ASIC miners came in and increased network hash rates by 200%, don't you think that the GPU miners would leave equihash, effectively reducing our predictions of difficulty increases?

Obviously, difficulty is going to go through the roof. But by how much depends on how many units will be shipped. I realize that I am taking a big gamble on getting batch 2, but I think it is a fair trade in risk/reward considering how difficulty has so far remained relatively stable. If it's a doorstop, it will be an expensive lesson learned. Still, I wonder if anyone has any reliable methods at determining how big these batches are. Does anyone have any estimates based on anything besides speculation?

Thanks Gabi! I was having issues building from source, and the latest binary release at ethereum-mining was getting me a bunch of rejected shares. Working like a charm now with CUDA 9.1. About 26.66 Mh/s with my GTX1070. People can't conceive of mining on a Mac. These same people have probably never heard of Hackintoshes either.

Add me to the list. I and many others can vouch that Cryptopia is a scam. Even Cryptopia acknowledges they are not processing withdrawals (https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/News). Yet this is not prominently advertised on their page and they still will take unsuspecting user's deposits. Many have waited weeks even months recently for withdrawals and so far nothing. People are losing airdrops, dividends, and selling opportunities in the meantime. Regardless whether Cryptopia had malicious intent or poor management, they have lost their users' money. Do not deposit your money with them unless you want to throw it away.