Quote from: kingmoneymastery on May 05, 2018, 12:17:46 PM

Is Zencash going to fork the Bitmain Z9 ASIC? Seems like the right thing to do. Well done Monero!

Quote from: ilcapitano on May 05, 2018, 12:12:29 PM

ASIC is not flexible equipment, so let's do forks and kill them.
I don't want to offend ASIC miners, but honestly those such of specific-designed equipment create huge potential for 51% replay attacks due to potential dominant ASIC mining farms.
As we all know, replay attacks are the most terrible stuffs in crypto world.

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This new miner is either an FPGA with on board RAM (quite likely) or a full blown ASIC with some kind of very fancy (and expensive) linked memory module.
If it's an FPGA we're dealing with, finding an algorithm that you couldn't just reprogram the FPGA to mine will be extremely difficult. If it's an ASIC, the task of creating some kind of incompatibility by modifying or switching algo's would obviously be considerably easier.

Problem is, we have no technical specs for the Z9 so we could potentially put a load of effort into something that would only take a few days to reconfigure the Z9 to mine...

So I think we should spend some time trying to figure out what we're actually up against before trying to formulate a plan.

Rowan Stone

https://github.com/ZencashOfficial/zen/issues/142