Been kind of wondering the same thing myself. It appears as though not alot of active discussion going on in these threads compared to back when I first joined bitcointalk.
Well, personally, not sure if you have a Dashcoin, SmartCoin, and StartCoin set of pools available but those are the one's I was planning on playing with on a couple of old GPU's I have lying around (assuming my friends apt. can handle the unit without any issue(s)). Impossible to really make anything at GPU mining without free electric anymore.
I noticed the apparent lack of profitability lately as I was looking into getting back in the mining game. I decided to do pools instead, but there don't seem to be many people interested in mining at all anymore. I can only assume it's due to the drop in price of BTC and the multitude of ASIC devices out there.
It seems to have turned into a race to the bottom with ASIC's. Everytime they come out with a new version, you have to upgrade or get left behind making pennies.
The only people making money seem to be the people making the ASIC's and that's a little bit over my head I'm afraid.
I will look into the coins you mentioned and see if I can get a pool working for some of them.
Thanks for replying,
Lee.
