Quote from: Felunk on July 19, 2018, 01:58:16 AM

Quote from: bones261 on June 29, 2018, 05:04:52 PM

Quote from: Felunk on June 29, 2018, 04:18:12 PM

Quote from: Sebahl on June 29, 2018, 03:28:01 PM

I am debating if I should buy the 2nd batch, since I have the $250 coupons?! What are you guys doing with the coupons? I have free electricity included in my apartment cost so I would be happy if I could just ROI in half a year. But I am afraid those will become doorstoppers eventually?!

With free electricity and coupon i'd give you the green light....sounds like zcash is not gonna fork now so you'll always have a coin to mine. Even though all the z9 ever made(and the faster more effecient ones coming out) will be on it with you, you should be good with the free power and the low consumption on this device to at least ROI and not get your apartment supervisor angry at the high power bills(for awhile anyway). But yeah this guy will be a big paper weight in 3-6 months, so if you expect your free power situation to change i'd say no.

What are you talking about? Zcash just did a vote at their Montreal conference and will be putting ASIC resistance on the back burner. https://www.coindesk.com/zcash-governance-panel-shoots-research-asic-resistance/
By the time they get around to it, ASIC mining will have a strong foothold and the GPU miners will go searching elsewhere for the few scraps left; if not shutting down entirely. Since most of the mining hash will be derived from ASICS, I am sure they will get increasing push back from their ASIC mining community. Who is going to go along with turning their coin making machines into bricks?

Same reason s9s are becoming big paper weights...too many s9s and better newer models coming. Also Id expect all equihash coins to fork including zcash eventually so ya big paper weight one way or another.

If I were launching a new coin and I wanted instant hashpower, I'd choose the current equihash params and do something like komodo with cross chain proving to bitcoin. Easy to get people interested in mining your coin if they cant mine anything else lol