Quote from: aat on October 10, 2014, 04:21:40 AM

Quote from: Red Kendra on October 09, 2014, 06:31:26 AM

Should Skeincoin be hard-forked to allow merged mining with other Skein coins, most notably Myriadcoin?

For those not familiar with merged mining, it allows two coins to be mined at the same time using a special pool.

Opinions welcome.

No. I'm generally against adding merge mining at such a late stage, and merge-mining with Myriadcoin seems like it'd add even more complications than usual, given its use of multiple algorithms.

With that said, it's time for another checkpoint, and there should probably be checkpoints on a frequent basis given that difficulty is so low.

If we decide to merge mine with Myriad coin, we will only merge mine with the Skein algorithm of Myriadcoin, so in that sense it won't be much different from other merge mining.

The advantage of this is higher hash rate for Skeincoin. At the moment the difficulty for Skeincoin is around 4 and for Myriadcoin's skein algorithm it is around 2000.

Something to also consider is that Skeincoin will be mined in the majority by miners who don't necessarily want to collect Skeincoin and they'll probably sell all their Skeincoin as soon as they mine them.