Since the fall of prices vertcoin I wondered how someone could mine the VTC or other scrypt-n coin. Scrypt-n consumes a lot of electric power and I can not cover the cost of electricity although it is one of the cheapest in Europe (0.06 $). Even merged mining VTC+Zerovert me not profitable. How is it possible that scrypt-n coins are still some miners? Is it possible that there are no secrets ASIC or FPGA and something else?Surely there is something I do not know.
It's not a secret that litecoingear has been offering n-scrypt fpga cloud mining for 3-5 months now (
http://ltcgear.com/product/tricoin-pack-m3/ ):
The product is able to mine, “out of the box”, Litecoin/Feathercoin (Scrypt), Darkcoin (X11) or Vertcoin (Scrypt-N).
Also, KNC titan miner was supposed to receive a firmware update that allowed it to mine n-scrypt (
https://www.kncminer.com/news/news-106 ):
The Titan was designed for several variants of the scrypt algorithm, including Scrypt-N. Titan's firmware is in continuous development and we'll update this space with new versions enabling new features as they become available.
Though I'm not sure how many people, if any, received a KNC titan that does.
Anyway, it doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility there are other fpga miners besides ltcgear.