Quote from: ZPDM on January 28, 2018, 05:12:33 AM

The way I see it one of the problems Pascal coin has right now is mining is centralized. With centralized mining some exchanges may be reluctant to list PASC over fear of a 51% attack. The developers, it is my understanding, are proposing a CPU algorithm to seek to address the problem. I'm not at all sure the current algorithm is the problem, that is to say with suprnova gone there is 1, ONE, pool to mine pascal, correct me if I am wrong. What if one goes through all the effort of putting a new algorithm in place at the end of which there is ONE mining pool, and possibly lots of botnets? So again it would seem the problem is there need to be more mining pools for Pascal, this doesn't seem like a terribly difficult problem to solve. The developers could 1) reach out to established pools and ask them to include Pascal, 2) talk to their programmer friends about creating mining pools 3) If they built the coin they sure could build a mining pool. So developers could build a Pascal mining pool take the 1% mining fee, 1% right Wink

and put the revenue towards coin development. Might not be much, but until or unless PIP11 passes it is something.

For the past three weeks or so I have been happily dual mining ETH/PASC at nanopool. If I had someplace else to point my six GPUs for PASC I likely would and definitely would if I knew the mining fee was going towards coin development. There may be something I am missing in all this like a problem with ASICs or some such but I am not sure changing the algorithm solves the problem of too few mining pools. Even though I am not a programmer I am half tempted to try and set up a PASC pool myself, probably not a great idea unless I had a lot of expert help. Anyways, my two cents and something to think about.

The big problem is that mining PASC is impossible due to super high diff.

I have 4 nvidias and two amds. Nvidias are pointed at nano, but not for ETH or PASC.

AMDs and my CPU are doing cryptonight. (Miners compiled from source - the fastest ones I found). CPU does higher H/s than one rx 480.

Any other configuration and it just doesn't make sense.

BTW: I set up solo cryptonote fork pool in the past. That was semi easy. There is no open source PASC pool that I could find.