I think we are doing decently despite not much activity here - Volumes are still quite good!
Still think that they need to change to X13 or so, to reduce electricity cost, so people will mine EAC again, now people don't want to mine any script coins. EAC has a lot of services but nobody want to mine it.
The current ASIC gridseeds consume like 7 watts and give you a hashrate of around 350 kh/s. Compared to any GPU this will be much less electricity spent. Why would the ASICs be bad? You can get them as easily as GPUs, they are cheaper than GPUs. Yes, embracing the ASIC has some rough sides, like the possibility of the manufacturers farming some of the scrypt currencies. But think about this: Lets say earthcoin changed their algo to something else, lets say X13.
Now, once the X13 ASICs or FPGAs arrive, some people will use them in all silence before they are all released, and they are competing against people who are GPU mining. They will have a much, much bigger part of the network hashrate if you compare it to a situation where ASICs are competing ASICs.
Either you stick with scrypt or jump on the algo-changing bandwagon.
I'm still waiting to see if there will be a "second generation", affordable scrypt ASIC anytime soon. I haven't checked the news lately, should do some research...
Zeusminer Blizzard 1.2 MH/s. 60 bucks at zoomhash, similar at several others. Don't have one yet, but I will soon. Several of my friends have them, and they work good. Not quite as stable as a gridseed, but the instability tends to be spikes more than valleys according to my friends.
And yeah, the algo bandwagon seems overdone to me. I said that EAC should embrace ASICS when they were still pretty damn new. As in your ASIC options in Scrypt mining were Gridseed and... well.. yeah, Gridseed
Contrary to popular myth, there is nothing magical nor terribly difficult from an engineering standpoint in making an ASIC, and let's face it, doing a math puzzle over and over again is a rather simple ASIC problem! The massive delays and problems coming to market on the preorder houses smell more and more like deliberate scamming to me with every passing day. Those that just went to market or did very short pre-orders have not had any problems that couldn't be quickly solved.
Multi algo hashing like X11,13,15 are a bit more complex than scrypt and possibly an order of magnitude more complex than SHA256... but if it can be done in a NON dedicated machine, like a GPU, then it can, and if profitable, will be implemented in hard coded silicon. Trying to stop the ASIC revolution is pretty much trying to close Pandora's box or oppose a thunderstorm. EAC is profitable to mine with a single gridseed. It's not profitable to mine with a GPU. This actually fits with it's goals of being an energy efficient and socially conscious coin. The level of hostility to innovations in technology and efficiencies on this forum frankly boggles me.
