Have any of you guys heard what the various developers of Equihash based coins are planning to do in regard to the Bitmain Equihash Asic that's shipping in ~6-7 weeks? I read a rumor that BTG said they would fork, but I haven't heard anything (yet) from others.
It seems like most of the Zcash community wants to change algo to kill off ASICs just like Monero did, but Zooko and co is sitting on the fence.. they don't say either yes or no to ASICs yet.. well they kinda say yes by not saying NO.. the zcash community is pretty upset, a lot of people will abandon the coin if there's no algo change.
Ongoing discussion on the zcash forum an also on github:
https://forum.z.cash/t/let-s-talk-about-asic-mininghttps://github.com/ZcashFoundation/Elections/pull/1The big attraction to the coin is not that it is anynonmous coin . The developers have touted this for more then a year. What that does is make the coin a target for law enforcement.
The big attraction to the coin was asics did not mine it and nvidia whales on it.
Zec could try killing any card under 10 gb.
This would make all cards die other then the 1080 ti. I think it would also kill asics. The developer could score if he did this since he would know only 1080 ti would be exclusive .