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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Monero ASIC next from Baikal (was: Bitmain)?
by
b20lopez
on 15/03/2018, 15:32:16 UTC
Monero is the next one to get an asic, I'm quite sure. 2MB of memory is a lot for an asic but can be done.

It also means that those asics will not disrupt the "scene" as much as the D3 is doing with X11. More memory means more space wasted on the silicon and less processing power per sqi.

The only issue with xmr, which might actually save it from asics is the scheduled hard forks. It would be relatively easy to modify it enough to take asics out of business, like a slight change to the algo that makes old hardware not compatible.