@Spoetnik,
Apologies for repeating myself... but this quote from the DRK dev...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=529570.msg5935102#msg5935102The whole point of X11 is to try and get the same network growth cycle as Bitcoin. Once Darkcoin is worth enough, people will invest the capital to create the ASICs. I never really had an issue with that, in fact that was the point of creating a new hashing algorithm, I think it will be healthy in the end to move to ASICs.
Reads to me that X11 was not designed to be ASIC resistant, but to simply delay ASIC deployment, as the dev is encouraging ASIC development and deployment as soon as it becomes economically viable. In fact, reading between the lines, X11 was optimised for ASIC's.
So to ever market DRK or any other coin using the X11 algo as 'CPU only' or 'ASIC-Resistant' is misrepresentation at a best and out-right deception at worst, according to the X11 algo developer himself. Interesting the title of the ANN thread reads -
[ANN][DRK] DarkCoin | First Anonymous Coin | First X11 | First DGW | ASIC ResistantI did not want to discuss DRK as requested by OP, but since DRK and X11 are inseparable, I will raise this point.
The X11 algo is not ASIC-resistant nor was ever intended to be according to the X11 developer.