Quote from: kuroman on March 24, 2014, 08:33:07 PM

Quote from: skillface on March 24, 2014, 04:24:10 PM

[Reddit] Changing landscape for Scrypt

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The GPU mining landscape is about to change drastically and many have not woken up to this fact. KNC recently took $2m in pre-orders for their 100MH Scrypt ASIC. These may start coming on to the network in Q2/Q3 of this year. There is no doubt that these will be turned on to many of the small Scrypt coins out there to strip them, sell the coins and then leave. This is going to leave many small coins unusable, many have less than 1MH. People do not seem to be aware of the problems this is going to cause and perhaps were not around for the SHA-256 ASICs turning up. This left many small SHA-256 at the time in a state where they had to hard fork to resolve the issues and others just disappeared. It is possible to move hashing algos in those coins.

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.. there does not seem to be any Scrypt coins who are seriously talking about changing their hashing algorithms. They may soon have their hand forced in the same way that Terracoin had no choice but to fork. However many small Scrypt coins do not seem to have an active developer in site, just communities of users who may soon be left without a working coin.

Something to keep an eye on. Keeping Catcoin as a pure Scrypt coin may be a bad idea if any of this holds weight.

Scrypt-N and Scrypt-Jane will hold since they are memory heavy, and fast dram is the most expensive part in the equation, a possible solution would be to switch to one of those, but again there are more urgent things to be done

We have already been talking about some of those for a future update. If everything works as expected, we should have a bit of time to decide on the best one for catcoin, before the Scrypt ASICs start hitting the streets.