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/1Yeah, i was wondering the same thing about most of the algo's that have ASICs either recently released or coming up. Why not just change the algo like XMR did? It really seems like there are many more GPU miners than ASIC, so why not do all you can to keep those people as happy as possible as long as possible? If other big coins did this then it should also have the benefit of slowing down the ASIC manufacturers.