Prob not.. too close to april 1. but i wouldn't be mad..
It's not news nor a joke really. It's just someone trying something particularly futile.
ASICs will secure the network. Sucks for GPU miners, but that's just the way a coin matures.
That particular poster couldn't handle that truth, so he's attempting to get people to switch to his Litecoin fork.
Except no exchange nor pool will consider using his fork, so it's just wasted effort on his part.
What I don't get, is why everybody is looking at X11 like it is some sort of new grail or whatever...
Don't think either that asic will secure anything, there are too many scrypt coin, they will just "secure" temporarily the one which looks the most profitable at a certain time, increasing the difficulty to the roof, making them non profitable for gpu then moving to a more profitable coin. (that's exactly the same discussion as with multipool).
Went to dead coin during the week, it was real sad there, Inkcoin. It took forever just to synchronize the wallet. The difficulty was pretty high, and even though I was mostly alone to run on it, it took something like 2 hours to get 2 consecutive blocks and they worth absolutely nothing (was hoping to fill the few remaining buy orders, but it would take eternity to do that...)