The reason for the jump in difficulty is indirectly linked to ASICS. The miners that have bought these are now mining cryptonight, so those with FPGAs have shifted from cryptonight to cryptonight light as its a little more profitable.
The good news is that wasn't anywhere near as many of these sold as the ASICS so the difficulty will level out shortly.
A higher difficulty is a more secure network, networks that are more secure and with more hash, have higher coin prices.
Aeon does not need a fork imo, it needs the hashpower more to keep up with it's rivals and that is something that I am sure the devs are considering.
All this whining about ASICS is just childish. With mainstream
You all want mainstream, yet when they begins more money and better technology is inevitable.
Keep forking, the technology will just keep adapting. It's time to embrace change, Satoshis vision was only an idea. Even he wouldn't have understood just how far it would go.
You know that miners with ASICS, FPGAS, GPUs are all miners and are all part of the community.
Time to work together and embrace change.
The good news is that wasn't anywhere near as many of these sold as the ASICS so the difficulty will level out shortly.
A higher difficulty is a more secure network, networks that are more secure and with more hash, have higher coin prices.
Aeon does not need a fork imo, it needs the hashpower more to keep up with it's rivals and that is something that I am sure the devs are considering.
All this whining about ASICS is just childish. With mainstream
You all want mainstream, yet when they begins more money and better technology is inevitable.
Keep forking, the technology will just keep adapting. It's time to embrace change, Satoshis vision was only an idea. Even he wouldn't have understood just how far it would go.
You know that miners with ASICS, FPGAS, GPUs are all miners and are all part of the community.
Time to work together and embrace change.
Well said! Increasing the power of the network and complexity is an evolutionary process, which is necessary for further strengthening of the Aeon.
There is no point in mined a coin if it never becomes a top-coin or at least a coin of the second echelon.
In the end, holders will be rewarded with an increase in the price of a volume that they managed to mined.
All this whining about ASICS is just childish.
Name calling is not a persuasive argument. There is good research and theory pointing both to ASICs being positive and negative so the issue is a lot more nuanced.
The duality of the problem is undeniable. However, what is harmful to Monero doesn't necessarily will do harm to Aeon at the current stage of its development. Still, "move out of a shadow" is a very strong argument.
