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March 20, 2018, 08:02:14 AM |
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Bitmain has found itself in a war with words with the monero community over the release of its latest cryptocurrency miner, the Cryptonight-capable X3. The unit is being offered at a discounted rate to existing customers, but critics claim this is because the miners will soon be ineffective at mining monero, the main coin to use the X3’s Cryptonight technology. Monero lead developer Riccardo Spagni has emphasized that the units will not work on monero due to a scheduled hard fork designed specifically to outwit the Cryptonight algorithm. https://news.bitcoin.com/battle-algorithms-bitmain-sparked-asic-mining-war/
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March 20, 2018, 03:57:36 PM |
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I hardly think bitmain's upset. They made these asics months ago and been mining privately laughing all the way to the bank. The release to the public is a last ditch effort to capture additional profits (and duping anyone buying them) before they become paperweights worth nothing.
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March 20, 2018, 04:11:49 PM |
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I hardly think bitmain's upset. They made these asics months ago and been mining privately laughing all the way to the bank. The release to the public is a last ditch effort to capture additional profits (and duping anyone buying them) before they become paperweights worth nothing.
Right, Monero team discovered that currently 75% of coins are mined not on public pools but from unknown source, that's why they decided to change the algo. And almost immediately bitmain announced their ASICs. So bitmain has been mined Monero on their ASICs for some time anyway.
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March 20, 2018, 04:58:24 PM |
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Perhaps soon we are waiting for revolutionary changes in the algorithms of coins. Everyone will start to defend themselves against asics. That's correct. The best for of the coin is the decentralization of mining. This can be achieved only when GPU mining. Perhaps this year we will have many forks and the depreciation of the coins on the old algorithms.
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March 20, 2018, 05:47:25 PM |
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Perhaps soon we are waiting for revolutionary changes in the algorithms of coins. Everyone will start to defend themselves against asics. That's correct. The best for of the coin is the decentralization of mining. This can be achieved only when GPU mining. Perhaps this year we will have many forks and the depreciation of the coins on the old algorithms.
Yeah, g3 coins perhaps will auto change algo when detected huge lumps of hashrate in one device, things similar to nvlink will be banned from existence and no device will be able to mine if greater than normally reported hashrate, there are many ways to deal with it.
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March 20, 2018, 05:54:12 PM |
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Jihan has enough money. It's time for someone to rip the head off of Bitmain. Whether it be Samsung or technology that provides defense against ASIC's.
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March 20, 2018, 05:56:15 PM |
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Can someone fork monero and call it monero cash please? I bought batch 4 X3 and I don't care if it gets rejected by monero devs and I knew the risk. I respect the devs for wanting to stay asic resistance. I just need something to mine. Power specs is great for a home miner.
I'll probably mine some other smaller cap cryptonight coin and Auto exchange it for monero
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March 20, 2018, 07:43:37 PM |
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Miners aren't in an uproar - the upgrades to mining software are already out there. BOTNET operators might be in an uproar, and morons that didn't do their DUE DILIGENCE before they bought an X3 might be in an uproar, but that's THEIR OWN problem.
I won't be shocked if Bitmain decides to back a "Monero Cash" type stupidcoin just to keep their miners worth something - but I for one will have NOTHING to do with it, just like I refuse to have anything to do with the Bitmain-backed Bitcoin Cash junkcoin.
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March 20, 2018, 08:44:20 PM |
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So i guess that is what will happen then, bitcoin cash, ethereum cash, zcash cash, monero cash.
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March 20, 2018, 10:58:33 PM |
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So i guess that is what will happen then, bitcoin cash, ethereum cash, zcash cash, monero cash.
If there's an ASIC behind it, you bet miners will find a way to keep the ASIC profitable so they can at least make their money back. Bitmain had enough money to keep BCH afloat (and surprisingly enough it's still somehow still alive) and more profitable than even BTC temporarily, they can afford to fork Monero and keep ASICs profitable on it if they so choose to by methods like pumping the coin.
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March 20, 2018, 11:41:43 PM |
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As someone mentioned above, its highly likely that Bitmain was already mining with these ASICs for months. I think this is the case with many 'ASIC resistant' coins, where large company with lots of resources may have already built ASICs in private and are mining with them. The threat of forking the blockchain is what stops them from publicly making money selling those ASICs though.
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March 20, 2018, 11:47:28 PM |
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As someone mentioned above, its highly likely that Bitmain was already mining with these ASICs for months. I think this is the case with many 'ASIC resistant' coins, where large company with lots of resources may have already built ASICs in private and are mining with them. The threat of forking the blockchain is what stops them from publicly making money selling those ASICs though.
So if this is correct, what makes anyone think that ethash difficulty will sky rocket once these asic's hit the public streets? Aren't they just selling off used miners that they have already used to cause a spike in difficulity? Especially interested in what Metroid thinks about that.
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March 21, 2018, 12:25:18 AM |
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As someone mentioned above, its highly likely that Bitmain was already mining with these ASICs for months. I think this is the case with many 'ASIC resistant' coins, where large company with lots of resources may have already built ASICs in private and are mining with them. The threat of forking the blockchain is what stops them from publicly making money selling those ASICs though.
So if this is correct, what makes anyone think that ethash difficulty will sky rocket once these asic's hit the public streets? Aren't they just selling off used miners that they have already used to cause a spike in difficulity? Especially interested in what Metroid thinks about that. Well if done correctly gpus get a massive boost here we shall soon see.
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March 21, 2018, 12:58:14 AM |
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As someone mentioned above, its highly likely that Bitmain was already mining with these ASICs for months. I think this is the case with many 'ASIC resistant' coins, where large company with lots of resources may have already built ASICs in private and are mining with them. The threat of forking the blockchain is what stops them from publicly making money selling those ASICs though.
So if this is correct, what makes anyone think that ethash difficulty will sky rocket once these asic's hit the public streets? Aren't they just selling off used miners that they have already used to cause a spike in difficulity? Especially interested in what Metroid thinks about that. Well if done correctly gpus get a massive boost here we shall soon see. Why do you say that?
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March 21, 2018, 01:10:43 AM |
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As someone mentioned above, its highly likely that Bitmain was already mining with these ASICs for months. I think this is the case with many 'ASIC resistant' coins, where large company with lots of resources may have already built ASICs in private and are mining with them. The threat of forking the blockchain is what stops them from publicly making money selling those ASICs though.
So if this is correct, what makes anyone think that ethash difficulty will sky rocket once these asic's hit the public streets? Aren't they just selling off used miners that they have already used to cause a spike in difficulity? Especially interested in what Metroid thinks about that. Well if done correctly gpus get a massive boost here we shall soon see. Why do you say that? Really? Because cryptonight ASIC mining will disappear. CN global hashrates will be down and the AMD RX VEGA rig i bought will become profitable again. This scandal with CN ASICs has really affected miners especially those who bough VEGA GPUs with the intent to use them for CN mining. Now VEGA miners are stuck mining ETH at subpar profitability.
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March 21, 2018, 01:20:12 AM |
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@ gotminer Metroid He is a master of the half truth propaganda method of blogging. But the truth he did reveal is there was a lot of asic's mining secretly on 'gpu' coins. He just left out the algo switch. bitmain mentions the switch on the 3000 and 1900 dollar batches https://i.imgur.com/URP1YUr.png
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March 21, 2018, 02:06:45 AM |
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With ETH Difficulty rise from 1.5 to 3.0 in Dec/Jan i betting there are ETH asics as well.
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March 21, 2018, 02:09:13 AM |
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With ETH Difficulty rise from 1.5 to 3.0 in Dec/Jan i betting there are ETH asics as well.
I agree since gpus are not being sold yet diff goes up and up
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March 21, 2018, 03:09:11 PM |
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With ETH Difficulty rise from 1.5 to 3.0 in Dec/Jan i betting there are ETH asics as well.
I agree since gpus are not being sold yet diff goes up and up Bro Phil, what do you think about Vegas and some 550's/1050s jumping on eth? aren't they enough to pull up such diff?
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