everybody who buys this is just financing their next batch for cryptonight v7
if monero doesnt change algo every month cryptonight is dead for gpu mining
Yeah I wonder how quickly the GPU mining software developers will be able to update their miners to support revised algos.
It could become a cluster fuck and really hurt the community because you'll have people trying to mine everywhere with GPU's that are running old versions of the mining software which is one of the reasons why I suspect someone will fork XMR if they revise the algo with their own core fork.
Wouldn't surprise me to see bitmain pull another bcash. "Monero Cash.." LOL. It'll be futile, though.
Yup, this wouldn't surprise me either.
Claymore has already indicated that he's working on updating his miner for V7. If miners can't be arsed to keep up with updated mining software, fuck 'em.
https://getmonero.org/2018/02/11/PoW-change-and-key-reuse.html which mentions a few other miners (xmr-stak comes immediately to mind).
I would not be shocked to see a "stick with the original algo" Monero fork to "MoneroCash" myself - but I gotta wonder if even Bitmain can make THAT brick fly.
Hopefully not.
Once Monero and Electronium shifts algo (yes, there HAS been an announcement that ETN is going to change algo), these miners are going to totally KILL any chance at profitability on any other CN coin - nothing else can soak the hashrate or even CLOSE.
It's going to be a TON worse than X11 or SIA - even if the miners were going to sell for $1000 there is almost zero chance anyone would make back their investment.
Less than 100 Mhash total network hashrate for all of the other CN coins COMBINED - and Bitmain seems to love selling batches of 3000 or so new miners at a time, which works out to 660 Mhash of NEW hashrate NOT counting Baikal's contribution.
Can you say "watch the profits collapse FAST"?
Even Ethereum would have a problem soaking THAT much new hashrate (to be fair, it may have already soaked part of it from Bitmain doing undercover mining with the machines before they announced them).
Bitmain does not appear to have thought out THIS move ESPECIALLY THE INSANELY HIGH PRICING, and it's iffy if Baikal did so.