Any news on the STD multipool?
I'm already warming up my gridseeds.
Do you know of any ASICS that do better than a Radeon R9 290 at scrypt?
I just bought 2 of
these.
The problem is that those do only vanilla scrypt, not scrypt-n or scrypt-jane.
Oh, and there's the knc titan incoming
I'm not sure if I should go for ASICs. I've always used graphics cards, because they are always graphics cards - i.e. at end of mining life, they can be sold to play games on. Out of date ASICs are worthless. What is this scrypt-n & scrypt-jane? Does that mean I can't mine certain coins? I currently use multipool, I don't really want to stick to one coin. Also will GUIMiner (Windows 7/8) run ASICs?
It's a matter of choice.
GPUs won't last more than 2 years mining, beacuse you'll fry them. Best to do is mine 6-12 months and resell them.
ASICs are more efficient in terms of power draw, so you get your ROI sooner, that's all.
Yes, scrypt ASICs won't mine scrypt variants for now (E.G. Vertcoin).
Scrypt multipools are fine with ASICs.
AFAIK GUIminer won't work.