It is interesting to see how many miners will actually switch ethereum to ethereum classic. They share the same name but thats about it. Good time to mine early though for etc fans
The ETH miners will not switch to ETC, the asics are on the move and the big mining farm will invest in asics. gpu miners will go to ETH.
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Re: ETC / Ethereum Classic is testing a change of its mining algo
From what I understand the algo will be CPU friendly but also GPU, FGPA and very easy to fabricate an ASIC for in the near future.
The algo won't be memory hard like DaggerHashimoto.
The threat of ASICs will only exist if ETC ends up actually being worth spending millions for to design an ASIC, since its not cheap. So I guess they don't worry about this now, maybe in the near future.
Should be an interesting developement none-the-less.
There is already an asic for sha3 (keccak), it is the silicon fusion X2 with 75 gh / s.