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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: [2018-02-12]Bitmain To Release Ethereum ASIC Miner F3 With 72Gb DDR3 Dram In Q2
by
wheelz1200
on 17/02/2018, 00:36:04 UTC
I though that developing Ethereum ASIC would be unprofitable because of their plans to switch to PoS, but it seems like Bitmain has calculated otherwise. Maybe it will be usable to mine other coins with the same algorithm. But since it won't be able to mine all GPU algorithms, GPU mining will still be around for a long time, so if this ASIC will take over ETH mining, current ETH miners will just switch to other coins.

The ETH PoW is designed to be ASIC resistant. So if there is an ASIC, it will change the algorithm.

Yes ASIC *resistant* not ASIC *proof*. What do you mean change the algorithm?

I think he means they would fork ysing a new algo for pow.  That is not what asic resistant is though.  I have no knowledge of what the eth team would and wouldnt do but dont know if theyd fork into another algo