coinchoose.com and PPC

[unvoid]

Does anyone know why PPC dropped from coinchoose?
http://coinchoose.com/index.php

[mprep]

No idea. Maybe not enough people interested?

[Este Nuno]

Dead coin?

[mprep]

Dead coin?

I don't think so. There are still a sizable amount of people using it.

[sal002]

Dead coin?

I don't think so. There are still a sizable amount of people using it.

Likely the block explorer went down.  I will look into it.

[Este Nuno]

Isn't any SHA256 altcoin pretty much useless now that asics are are out there?

Didn't PPC get attacked already anyway?

[mr_random]

Isn't any SHA256 altcoin pretty much useless now that asics are are out there?

Didn't PPC get attacked already anyway?

Nope. PPC has coped perfectly well with ASICs. It's difficulty algorithm adjusts pretty much continuously so ASICs jumping on and off the network don't cause spikes in difficulty.

[Sunny King]

Recently there has been a high demand for PPC among miners, so the profitability rarely goes above 100%. It's typically around 90% these days.

[Sunny King]

With recent chain stuck issue in CNC and 51% attack on FTC etc I don't know why folks still held onto the myth that only SHA-256 coins can be attacked by powerful miners and scrypt coins are somehow immune.

The issue with stuck chain has always been the difficulty adjustment algorithm, regardless of which hash function is used for mining. That's why I praise ONC's developer as he is competent enough to realize this and adopted PPC's difficulty adjustment.

[Este Nuno]

Isn't any SHA256 altcoin pretty much useless now that asics are are out there?

Didn't PPC get attacked already anyway?

Nope. PPC has coped perfectly well with ASICs. It's difficulty algorithm adjusts pretty much continuously so ASICs jumping on and off the network don't cause spikes in difficulty.

That's good. I can imagine if profitability goes up over bitcoin maybe a few asics might give mining a shot.