Quote from: I_M on May 31, 2018, 03:57:09 PM

Quote from: Ginzink on May 31, 2018, 09:19:00 AM

But best to wait and see. Also it is hard to know if the coin developers will be able to actualy make it FPGA resistant as LUX says they will do.

Unless coin developers work with FPGA devs to develop an algo or series of algos, they will have an exceptionally hard time developing a coin that couldn't be put on an FPGA in a very short time. Coins can be FPGA resistant, but FPGA bitstreams can be developed far faster than ASICs. In the end it's only a matter of time between when a coin forks, and an FPGA can adapt.

Those coin devs should be more concerned about someone creating a secret 90nm asic for $500,000 and 51% attacking their coin.

If the algo change is not very big it will take less than a day to modify for a fork. For instance, zcoin, they forked away by changing their lyra2 parameters. We would only need to change 4 lines of code to adapt. The longest part of making the change would be waiting for the bitstream to compile. But, they increased the memory usage beyond what is available on the chip - so we won't be able to mine them again until we get our HBM2 memory. But, we will, and we will once again achieve perf above and beyond GPUs. Then what are they going to do? There's no change they could make at that point where we couldn't correct for it in the same day they made the change.

So, now that I know zcoin will try to pow change if they find out I'm mining on it, why would I ever be public about it? Maybe I should go spend $500,000 secretively and be 99% of their hashrate? (I wouldn't do this. But, Bitmain and others would.)