Quote from: octominer on April 04, 2018, 03:20:43 AM

Quote from: tavogl on April 04, 2018, 02:32:14 AM

Got to say that octominers customer service is great, my PSU died, I spoke to them on the chat and then an quick email stating the psu had died, they sent me the new psu after a few days, you don't get this kind of support in many places, because of this, I will continue to buy octominer products.

Btw octominer did you change anything on the new atx psus? this one is quieter than the last one which seemed to be running at full blast 100% of the time

Hey!

Glad to hear that you are happy with our products and the level of support we provide.

We are constantly upgrading and improving our products. Which ATX PSU do you have? We have a new 1650W one that has a silent fan that has 2 speed options also.

It's just the regular ATX Psu, but for some reason it's quieter than the previous one, no 2 speeds.

Would you guys ever consider joining the ASIC war against BITMAIN? has that ever crossed your mind? we need a competitor for bitmain as it seems like GPU mining is damned. We were just having a conversation with one of the ZenCash admins about forking off equihash as their difficulty increased insanely recently and it's kinda obvious there's ASICs mining ZenCash....

I gave them the Monero example, they forked and their difficulty dropped like 75%, it was obvious bitmain is pre mining their asics before shipping them, look at the answer Blockops gave me, one of their admins:

Give the monero and other GPU mined cryptocurrency hashrates a week or two to see what it normalizes to. Big GPU operations would just switch away from monero while there is a fork, then it takes them time to get their mining software updated to the new fork software, then they get back onto mining it.

It is not obvious that there are ASICs mining ZenCash. It is more probable that GPU miners switched away from the Monero drama, and after they get their updates done, things will settle out.

There are also going to be, if there are not already, miners that are FPGA with external memory for algorithms like Ethash and Equihash. The FPGA's would be able to be reconfigured after a fork to match the new algorithm.

The Ravencoin algorithm, X16r, uses 16 different algorithms in different order every block. Even that can be turned into an ASIC by using something similar to a Bitmain D3, and provide a connection to each of the 16 algorithms, then use a controller board to route the solutions in and out of the 16 algorithms.

Developers tend to underestimate ASIC and FPGA designers. It's not as simple as it seems, to just call for forking the algorithm when the hashrate gets higher than people like.
Hashrate can be a leading indicator. It means miners are willing to pay more for mining a cryptocurrency because they expect the price to go up in the future.

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it seems like big miners are aware that GPU mining will eventually disappear since we can't really do anything about ASICs, this are very smart people and they are aware of the situation, the only way the game will be fair is if bitmain gets aggresive competition, otherwise, in my humble opinion crypto is useless, centralized coins? I might aswell go buy USD$ and Euros.

What's your take on this? would you ever consider this?