Quote from: XScrypt on April 12, 2014, 02:50:08 PM

Quote from: sonysasankan on April 12, 2014, 01:51:50 PM

Hey, anybody heard of this scam coin? Not really sure about this one as I don't have any coding experience.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=567160.msg6178351#msg6178351

That's not how asics work right? Can any programmers here confirm if anything he says makes any sense? He's got a wicked sense of humor and definitely could've fooled me a month ago. There's no proof, wallet, escrow, nothing. But I'm dying to know from a coder's point of view. Is it possible to have something like this even theoretically? Gridseeds being Scrypt only, is it possible to have two algos for the coin running simultaneously?

Hypothetically, if a part of your algorithm has a step that depends on scrypt then you could define a message, send it to the ASIC, then get the result and continue on. There's nothing stopping people from having a 13 part algorithm that can use CPUs, GPUs, and ASICs in some combination.

Having a Java based wallet running in a browser is also possible, but you might as well say "TURN ME INTO A BOT NET NODE PLZ!". Most browsers have java execution turned off by default.

Thanks for clarifying. I'm going to wait till some more info comes along. Launch is almost a month away... I'm sure there will be more updates from the "dev" in due time. Maybe even go all out and gamble a bit with a disposable 0.01 BTC! Dont want to miss a train if its genuine Tongue