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Stinky_Pete (OP)
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April 10, 2014, 02:42:16 PM
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So I was thinking about Gridseed miners, but it seems that many people want to change their coins away from Scrypt to something different because of these ASICs. Does this produce a gap in the market for a coin that is designed with Scrypt ASICs in mind? What parameters would be needed to encourage adoption?

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April 10, 2014, 03:28:09 PM
Last edit: April 10, 2014, 04:51:49 PM by Cloudpost
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scrypt asics bring huge scypt hashpower. Only the biggest coins will stay secure. I think that soon a single huge scrypt asic farm owner with his own pool will be able to fork/attack coins easily (and it will take a few working time for his farm due to low block times). Small/average scrypt coins are in big danger in furute.

Biggest gpu farms (lets say 50-150 mH), that's ~ 1 kW per 3 mH. Imagine what hashrate these farms will produce when they will replace gpus with asics? Enough to form many existing scrypt coins for sure.

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