tldr; looking forward to an algorithm that enables as many people as possible to participate, for as long as possible (important).
The current immediate issue is that Scrypt ASICs are available, only purchasable by a minority.

Quote from: dr00g on May 25, 2014, 07:01:46 PM

Therefore I think Coino should be a friendly coin to get a broad audience. As you will need a GPU, gamers will be the first adopters, and what they invest into mining will also be useable for gaming, so even if they loose interest their gear is still useable or should be fairly easy to sell to either other miners or gamers.

I personally like x11, as it greatly helps with some of the issues that scares people off:
- It's much more energy efficient, which means a lower electricity bill
- Due to being more energy efficient, the hardware will get far less hot, which means lesser fan noise
- ASIC resistant, which means those who has a newer GPU can mine fairly

Exactly what I was thinking, crypto currency accessible to the majority.
By any chance is there a proper write up going in depth into all these algorithms or is it pretty much a personal quest at this stage to figure it out yourself?

Based on the briefest flick through the pages of X11, it does seem appealing. This notion that it uses less power as it simply does less work is a bit of an issue though, all it takes then is for someone to make it efficient. Once that happens, 100% use of 100w is still 100w...

The switching in algorithm needs to be considered and thought out. Snap decisions in doing "anything" will most likely result in an unfavourable outcome that in hindsight would probably have been avoided if no decision was even made. A bit like age old developer time suck of optimising because it is fun even though the gain is 0.01%.

Needless to say, this is something we'd all need to keep reading up on, an informed decision and all that jazz.