Glad to see this project is flourishing. The whitepaper seems legit enough. I am curious if there will be options to fork away from equihash if it gets too saturated with asics?
There will! First some fork to disable asics, (Very) Later maybe some fork to POS. But that's very far in the future.
But an fork to brick those asics will definitely be applyed!
This coin barely has any volume and there's little to no exchange support. No data to coinmarketcap or similar services. Rather than worrying about ASICs I would hope you'd be worried about more important things. Let bigger coins figure out how to deal with ASCIs. I work in software and personally think it's a losing battle. ASICS will become more sophisticated and/or you'll have FPGA's start coming online. Be mindful that changes make the coin more ASIC resistant also have a negative impact on GPU miners. Every time you fork you risk the potential losing people during the fork. Eventually people are just going to sell their coins and cash out.
Fair enough. I think you have a solid point. The issue is that bigger coins aren't hit nearly as hard by asics than smaller ones. Granted, as mentioned there is very little we can do with FGPAs and similar tech, but its still something that can really centralize the early distribution of the coin.
I find that there are two sides of coins, soft and hard. Hard is the coding and that stuff is beyond me, but the soft side is social - this is the listings on exchanges, economics, etc. If there is any longevity in the project, which this seems to have, it all comes out in the wash of time. Exchange listings just cost money, which the protocol creates for the foundation in each block - along with support from people actively trading it. Once one of the bigger names in the space picks this up it will have the volume needed. Cryptopia is probably the go-to, though its expensive as hell to get listed, will be worthwhile in the long run. I was simply asking about the long run =)
