Request for SHA-3 coin

[Come-from-Beyond]

Hey, whoever is going to launch a new altcoin! Why don't u use Keccak-256? We need something non-archaic (not SHA256 nor Scrypt). SHA-3 will let to bring into mining business new people, who don't own ASICs nor GPU rigs. Could be an interesting experiment. 

[LiteBit]

Hey, whoever is going to launch a new altcoin! Why don't u use Keccak-256? We need something non-archaic (not SHA256 nor Scrypt). SHA-3 will let to bring into mining business new people, who don't own ASICs nor GPU rigs. Could be an interesting experiment. 

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[ElBurro]

Make a coin for botnets? no thanks

[Mushoz]

Make a coin for botnets? no thanks

Can't SHA-3 run on GPUs as well? That would make botnets much less profitable really fast. Scrypt is much better for Botnets, since the advantage of GPUs over CPUs isn't that huge.

[Come-from-Beyond]

Make a coin for botnets? no thanks

Can't SHA-3 run on GPUs as well? That would make botnets much less profitable really fast. Scrypt is much better for Botnets, since the advantage of GPUs over CPUs isn't that huge.

It can. But it will take time to create such mining soft.

[Mushoz]

Make a coin for botnets? no thanks

Can't SHA-3 run on GPUs as well? That would make botnets much less profitable really fast. Scrypt is much better for Botnets, since the advantage of GPUs over CPUs isn't that huge.

It can. But it will take time to create such mining soft.

Then they will have to launch the coin together with a SHA-3 GPU miner

[spndr7]

Variable output of the sponge function of SHA-3 function could be used dynamically for SHA-3 coin.

[bitdwarf]

YaCoin already uses SHA3 Keccak (on top of Scrypt).

[arjay45]

Yes, I was going to say, Yacoin uses SHA-3 with chacha in its scrypt implementation instead of the sha256 with salsa that litecoin uses.

So if you're looking for a SHA-3 coin, there you have it. It's already on an exchange too. Though last I checked it wasn't worth mining but that may have changed.