Re: [ANN] [HVC] Heavycoin - CPU-only, Ultra-secure, Decentralized Voting

devs when you get a change could you please let us know about this gpu support for cpu mining which has been linked above?

To the best of our knowledge it's not possible. It sounds like he's achieved a speedup for some of the underlying hash functions (to be expected), but the overall hash still requires a CPU. Later on he says "provided that we achieve the necessary speed-ups for this to be worthwhile", which implies he's unsure of the final results.

For the coins sake, I hope he/she's unsuccessful.

The Christians will be successful - make no mistake about that. GPU mining is coming and it's coming soon. And yes, while they may be unsure of the final results, 8x performance ain't too shabby for alpha-stage code.

I think 8x improvement is too shabby when it means sacrificing the ability to gpu mine also. whos gonna really benefit? those with decent cpus and decent gpus in the same rig. most gpu miners have shitty single core processors which in this instance will be turned into 8 threads but again to do this they lose the ability to gpu mine other coins.