Maybe scrypt based coins are slowly being rendered worthless by investors in BTC, and useless by exchanges who refuse to trade them for fiat directly. CGMiner already stopped supporting GPUs, too. It's just worrisome.
I kind of feel BTC holders are a little elitist, too. Like scrypt miners are as worthless as their coins.
you're 100% correct. it's an elitist little bunch. that cgminer guy could just continued support in a second miner... but he didn't
BTC guys think just cause they spent 10000$ on asics, they are something better...
what is going to happen is that litecoin will slowly catch up to BTC and a couple of other scrypt coins will rise in value as a replacement for litecoin in some situations (EAC has the fastest transaction speed of any coin atm, so in special circumstances, this might be preferred) or some coin that has some other unique thing people want...
basically BTC will look down on scrypt until people realize they do not want to wait 2 hours for a BTC transaction (and that's where we're rapidly going with BTC) and they do not want 100GB of transaction data on their harddrives
and they do not want every damn transaction in an accessible list for everyone to read. ----> scrypt coins that are more anonymous like anoncoin
scrypt is going to happen to BTC like BTC happened to fiat currencies. first quiet and slowly, then fast and ugly
do you suspect EAC will be as profitable as most alt coins were last week , around $30-40 a day for rigs as small as 1.5 MH/s? I really like EAC's transaction times as well