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Re: Bitmain launches the Z9 Equihash miner
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on 21/05/2018, 17:24:08 UTC
Quote from: madmartyk on May 21, 2018, 01:00:36 PM
Quote from: dmwardjr on May 21, 2018, 12:53:20 PM
How you like this announcement, BITMAIN?   ROFL....


Quote from: MedaR on May 21, 2018, 09:13:08 AM
Quote from: z0n0 on May 21, 2018, 07:42:45 AM
Can anyone pls comment on official ZEN statement on ASICs and changing algo to ASICs resistant, but in a short quick way.
whats the TLDR version?

Thanks.
Potential Equihash Algorithm Change Preparation

Modifying ZenCash to use Equihash-144-5 is doable, and the software development team has started identifying the specific work that would need to be done in order to create and test this change. It would be a Hard Fork change, and for optimal success of the Hard Fork, it would be best to implement such a proposed change as quickly as reasonably possible before too many ASIC miners take over the hashrate of ZenCash.

https://blog.zencash.com/zencash-statement-on-potential-equihash-algorithm-change/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=social&utm_content=mining&utm_campaign=re+bitmain

In theory all the Z9's are already running and have been counted in the hashrate.  That's what everyone says, that they have been running for months.  So why are the DEVs getting their panties in a bunch?  When Batch 1 is released it shouldn't raise the hashrate at all correct?  It's batches after that we have to worry about.

Also, if they change the algo, I don't think it will take long for BitMain to release a new miner.  They seem to have building miners for GPU only coins down, and it they don't Baikal will.

It will raise the hasrate and the diff. shitmain will release much more ASICs than they've ben mining with, because they'll do more $ selling the ASICs rather than mining themselves.