How can you be sure that there are no ASICs out there that are able to mine your algo? Im just curious
I was wandering the same. The only explanation so far is that the algo used
actually chains several algos when mining. This would be harder to put on an ASIC and be optimal I guess.
Regardless, for a lower volume coin the difficulty is way higher than expected.
1) A quick check on the main pools provide us with the amount of miners and their total hashrate. Simply dividing the two numbers and we know the average hashrate per miner. Then if the hashrate of the biggest pools sums up with the network's total hashrate then we know there are no hidden pools or ASICs solo mining.
2) Since HEX is only used by XDNA and we're a new coin, it's simply not profitable to produce an ASIC for this algo.
Executing the check n.1,A 1080ti can provide maximum ~21Mh/s and the biggest pools are xdna.suprnova and BSOD.
If you check the xdna.supronva pool the average hashrate per worker is 55.3Mh/s, so no ASICs there. BSOD's average hashrate is 41.30Mh/s, nothing suspicious there as well. Note that one worker can have multiple cards.
Let's check for hidden miners outside those pools... Supronova's hashrate is 4.64Gh/s and BSOD's hashrate is 5.70Gh/s. Checking the official explorer (
http://explorer.xdna.io/) we see the network has 10.55Gh/s, so there's no need for further investigation at the moment.