Quote from: RivAngE on July 30, 2018, 12:46:46 PM

Quote from: pitt59 on July 30, 2018, 12:18:48 PM

its not nicehash that is screwing the network, its fpga, seems like asics are better than these fpga exploiters, almost double hashrate lol nicehash on x16r dont have that hash, these fpga are screwing alot of gpu mined coins, im selling all my gpu and just going for asics from now on, this anti asic talk is shit, they push anti asic and they mine with fpga and toy with the network, look at what they did to electroneum and its now happening to raven and alot of other gpu coins

Excuse me but what makes ASICs good and FPGAs evil?

At least FPGAs can be reprogrammed and won't become useless once a devteam decide to change their algo or the manufacturer releases a new ASIC.

Also most (if not all) FPGAs are produced in US from Xilinx, not in China from Bitmain. That's a personal taste and by the way I'm not a US citizen but a European one.
More importantely, I'd never support Bitmain which has proved to do anything, no matter how shaddy, for their own profit. They're doing anything to pump their child, Bitcoin Cash (example: https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/04/24/bitmain-antpool-artificially-boosting-bitcoin-cash-bch-price/) and I can't trust nor support such a company.

This is why I'm supporting Raven which (I hope) can't be mined with ASICs. If RVN can be mined with a 1000$ GPU sloted in a PCI-E or if it can be mined with a 4000$ FPGA sloted in the same PCI-E, I don't mind, it doesn't really make any difference.

Oh RVN can be mined on ASICs. All you need is dedicated cores for 16 algos and a controller chip that can decide to delegate the task to the appropriate core.
The only way to achieve so called "ASIC resistance" is to make the algo heavily memory bound. Even so, all you achieve is less efficiency gap between the GPU vs ASIC but this is a pretty good achievement on it's own. The efficiency gap becomes 2x compared to 50-100x. Classic example is the E3 ethash miner.