Quote from: QuintLeo on July 19, 2017, 06:15:47 AM

Quote from: generalt on July 18, 2017, 05:30:56 PM

Also whats everybody's thoughts on the new Bitmain D3 X11 miner?

Nice specs, but X11 coins are such a small market and already have 3 companies that have/make ASIC for it so I'm rather shocked Bitmain decided to enter it.

Baikal folks are probably going to be OK since their miners don't JUST do X11, iBLink and Pinaldea folks are going to get squeezed pretty hard.

DASH is about the only X11 coin that has ever been worth anything (especially back in the DarkCoin days when it was the ONLY X11 coin), and even it isn't REAL big cap.

I suspect Bitmain has seen S9/R4/T9 sales drop quite a bit, or they wouldn't be bothering with altcoin ASIC miner making to fill up their available foundry space for chipmaking.

But the X11 ASIC will just be a small fraction of the SHA256? Does it make any difference for Bitmain?