Hello,
We have a few questions for DASH community members. We will be glad if you could answer these questions. This will also help us to shape our investment plans for the future.
Why DASH difficulty hasn't increased for the past few months while x11 ASICs are being released?
Is this because of a preference of miners that use these devices for mining other x11 cryptocoins? Do you think that renting x11 hash power more profitable instead of mining DASH?
What could be expected for other x11 cryptocoins regarding their difficulty, price level, merged mining options, etc?
Regards,
Coaex Precious Metals founder
Any answer you receive will be speculative, but I do have some theories. It could simply be that GPU miners are turning off their machines upon learning that ASICs are released (e.g., assuming that ASICs would make them unprofitable). It is counter-intuitive that the hash rate has been dropping in the context of higher price for Dash and the release of ASICs. If GPU capacity is migrating away from X11 faster than ASIC capacity is brought online.
Longer term, I would expect the arrival of ASICs will have to increase the difficulty of all X11 coins, once their capacity exceeds the previous X11 GPU capacity. They are simply more efficient, so the equilibrium hashing power must be higher.