Quote from: aironeous on June 18, 2018, 01:19:42 PM

If this is real and we are now going to have FPGA testing/mining empty blocks and not reporting their stats coming out of China, it's going to make things more complicated.
We already have about 50 MH/S discrepancy between what the Electroneum blockchain explorer reports and the total hash power added up of all the reporting pools and someone is mining empty blocks. I'm thinking Bitmain and Genesis are prime suspects for not reporting their private pools but I don't see them mining empty blocks. I could see however China making FPGA's and testing them and mining empty blocks.
Well if we are really going to see small affordable FPGA's like this (if this is real), once the cat is out of the bag we are going to see a thousand counterfeits coming out of China.

How do you mine empty blocks? How does that work?

If these small FPGAs get onto the market, it's like a more power efficient sets of GPUs, and unlike ASICs they won't destroy the networks that quickly. But eventually when thousands of these are getting sold by copycats, any good return on coins will disappear. Until then, I'm refreshing this page at least once every 5 min to keep up with the latest episode of this unfolding drama/suspense/thriller. I may have to seek medical help if nothing unfolds in the next week or so. Grin