Hi,
I suppose everybody is annoyed by enormous transaction fees.
No difference if it is a manipulation by Roger Ver and his friends - the fact is the network is simply unusable for a majority of not so wealthy dudes.
I did a small research and it seems that lightning network is not going to happen soon enough so there is another option - RootStock, which is in release stage.
If it is technically possible please integrate SBTC to Electrum.

И почему все себя ведут так как будто ничего не происходит...

Yellow line is "Unknown" pool according to bitcoinchain.com.
And synchronous turn off of this 30Th device kinda tells us that it can be controlled with push of a button.
And 30% of network is kinda not far from 50% ... not considering that it could blur its hashrate to known pools not to be suspicious.

I'm just wondering is there a a crypto algorithm that would be highly optimized even better then scrypt for opencl/cuda or even CPU calculations so that it would be very hard or unprofitable to make an asic for it.

I know that  this won't happen 'couse doing this for an asic chips manufacturer is like blowing up the goldmine but think a bit.
If 1 avalon chip is 300 mhash and total network hashrate is 100000ghash for now they need just 170k chips running to absolutely dominate bitcoin network.
Considering 1 chip 0.085btc (and of course net cost is MUCH less) one asic manufacturer would need just ~1 million dollars and asic chip factory to do whatever they want with bitcoin.
I know that in practice that won't gonna happen(nobody wants to blow the goldmine right ?) but don't you think that even hypothetical opportunity of such an easy scam should lead us to conclusion that sha256 is not good enough to provide appropriate network decentralization.

I know that  this won't happen 'couse doing this for an asic chips manufacturer is like blowing up the goldmine but think a bit.
If 1 avalon chip is 300 mhash and total network hashrate is 100000ghash for now they need just 170k chips running to absolutely dominate bitcoin network.
Considering 1 chip 0.085btc (and of course net cost is MUCH less) one asic manufacturer would need just ~1 million dollars and asic chip factory to do whatever they want with bitcoin.
I know that in practice that won't gonna happen(nobody wants to blow the goldmine right ?) but don't you think that even hypothetical opportunity of such an easy scam should lead us to conclusion that sha256 is not good enough to provide appropriate network decentralization.

I'm just wondering is there a a crypto algorithm that would be highly optimized even better then scrypt for opencl/cuda or even CPU calculations so that it would be very hard or unprofitable to make an asic for it.