I saw a weird info on icemining.ca pool's twitter :
"I never thought I'd say this. Tomorrow's RVN hard fork is a manipulation between FPGA Farms, an ASIC Dev with pedigree, and one pool operator. FPGA and ASICS were already developed, and this was the plan all along. #RavenCoin #ScamAlert"
What do you guys think about it ?
You mean what do people think of conspiracy theories?
I wouldn't give much weight to what that person/company has to say. They think SHA-3 is being added in to the "mix". It's Tiger and it's being place in front of 3 other hashing functions.
I do however sort of agree with the sentiment about wanting something better. Given the speed at which an ASIC was developed for this coin, I suspect it will be only a few months before there's a new one out there. This change doesn't feel like it does enough to really make it harder for ASICs to be developed for it. Maybe the larger S-boxes of Tiger will, but if they were already willing to invest in making ASICs for such a young coin, I think they'd go for it anyway. My impression though is that the devs want to see how the Monero one works out and then that would be a potential option for a better solution. Regardless, the desire for no ASICs on the network is a core principle of the coin and they're making a change to that end which is all that really matters. We'll see how it all plays out.