Anyone catch the ETH dev call today? If so can you summarize the conclusion because I still don't understand whether ProgPOW is a go or not. Seems that people were for and against it and now I don't know where we stand.
Either way. Apparently the Antminer E3 accounts for around 40% of the total ETH hashrate. There was a nonce fingerprinting done similar to what was done with XMR old algo and it turns out that 40% is from the certain ASIC. It was released by BitsbeTrippin and you can find it on their twitter. So in about a month or so around 40% of the hashrate is going to disappear.
This is why I never trusted ETH most likely they won't go to ProgPOW they really don't care about miners much.
At least we will get a boost when the asics die off. I do think those machines could be tweaked to have more ram.
I wonder if someone (Bitmain) has a lot of higher memory machines in hand mining in the background.
They reach out to ETH dev and poof no algo switch.
This would mean that 40% hashrate drop will be 30% as bitmain had 1 in 4 machine on the network and they have jack up memory.
Which is why they made sure to build the units with ddr2 not ddr3 ram. The 3 of 4 units out in the wild won't find much ddr2 to upgrade with.
From the disassembly videos that I saw posted on Youtube, the ram seems to be soldered into the hash board. This is the video I am looking at,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew6mL5BjpdIAlso I made a mistake earlier, according to the video the RAM chips are actually DDR3 and not DDR2. Looks like they just bought the actual memory chips and not the actual memory module that most computer use. So I don't think its possible to add more memory. It would take forever to desolder every single ram chip and replace with a higher capacity. Also it would need to be reprogramed, most likely won't be plug and play.