Quote from: CataloniaCoin on April 17, 2014, 06:23:52 PM

More people from catalonia is getting interested on CataloniaCoin because of the promotion that we're doing here!!

This days more and more news are going to come.
As well, we're in contact with some people and new developers for the project!

Cheers Wink

Very good news !

Since we are still at the very beggining, i would like to throw an idea for discussion.
How would people feel if we switch hashing algorithm to something more efficient.Something like X11 or Heavy.

The advantages of doing so would be:
-Very low mining temperatures.That is 20-30C less (my 280x is at mining at 52C) The summer is almost here and the whole southern Europe is gonna have huge problem mining script based coins. Plus the low temperatures will allow many gamers to jump on the train, since they will be able to mine without the need of spacing the GPUs, modding the cases e.t.c
- 50 % less power consumption. No need to elaborate ! It says it all. But again from a gamer's perspective again, for example with 2x 280x, this makes a huge difference (250 watt against 500 Watt). (Before you start any financial argument against this please note that there will be a lot of gamers/people that will support the network for ideological reasons).
- Significantly less noise from the GPUs

- Increases the lifetime of the GPUs. Scrypt-N has a bad reputation.
- Much harder ASICs implementations since these are based on mix of encryption algorithms.
- X11 is well established algorithm with custom gravity well, p2pools etc. All the code is available.
- Heavy algorithm has builtin voting mechanism.

The disadvantage would be:
-A lot of additional work.
-Hard fork.
- Heavy algorithm is underdeveloped.

While we should not geographically limit the CATc network, i feel that the summer heat would discourage a lot of southern Europeans to support this coin, especially during the months before the referendum where we gonna need them the most ! Tbh i am not sure that even the northern Europeans are going to be able to mine scrypt-based coins.

Again my 2 CATc

bacoinin

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