Re: Happy New Years! Seventh alt coin thread!

for those of you still chasing XMR profits, I just swapped from claymore to xmr-stak-win64 and am seeing better results; more consistent poolside hashrate reports, etc....

Monero fork is due on 28.03.18
After the fork monero will be mined with modified algo (so called V7). At the moment other cryptonight coins do not follow the fork.
So we have question - to keep mining coins with old algo with ASIC threatening any use of GPU for mining or to switch to new algo.
BTW XMR-STAK will release updated version of miner that will automatically switch to new monero algo and Claymore do not announce any intensions to update cryptonight miner to new algo.

I expect a big drop in overall monero hashpower just after the fork. Should we try to get a few extra coins from it?

You are spreading wrong information... Monero fork is due on 6.04.2018: https://github.com/monero-project/monero
Claymore did announce a new version for both CPU and GPU miners: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=647251.msg32659476#msg32659476

The Monero fork was originally announced for March 28, but it looks like it may have been pushed back a bit for additional testing.
XMRig already had a new miner update out last week, xmr-stak had support for the changed algorithm announced but not sure if their update is published yet.
I figure hashrate will dump bigtime if only due to the existing botnets probably not being able to upgrade for a while (if ever), plus some folks WON'T get the word for a while.