Quote from: Techgtv on June 17, 2018, 08:55:53 PM

Quote from: espressodelisi on June 17, 2018, 07:36:18 PM

Quote from: pixel8or on June 17, 2018, 06:25:45 PM

Quote from: esh_ on June 17, 2018, 12:24:14 PM

People are trying to increase their post number so they can either sell the accounts or be involved with those airdrop like advertising campaigns for new coins..

Ah... thanks for explaining that. I was wondering about it, myself.

There are some interesting comments by Kristy-Leigh Minehan (OhGodAGirl) on this youtube interview about ASIC resistance where she uses RVN as an example. Jump to 12:45 where she starts with "No Proof of Work is safe."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3i3jpJqgoo

Particularly at 14:47, "There is no such thing as ASIC resistance."

There are already some people mining rvn with FPGA boards. They are not static hardware like asic, and they can change the algo if the pow algo changes. But they are expensive hardware. I hope pow algo devs can find a way to overcome this.

That is the thing, you can't.

You either embrace that the crypto world is evolving, or you get left behind. FPGA's cannot be blocked from mining like asics, because the whole reason they exist is to reprogram them over and over.

Must read for people who still think ASIC/FPGA can be defeated.

https://blog.sia.tech/the-state-of-cryptocurrency-mining-538004a37f9b

"At this point, I think its safe to assume that every Proof-of-Work coin...
with a block reward of more than $20 million in the past year...
has at least one group of secret ASICs currently mining on it...
or will have secret ASICs mining on it within a few months".

That $20 million number is dropping fast.