Topic: Gridseed Miners and Scrypt-n coins (Read 3625 times)

My impression of some of the scrypt variations is that they make it more like a triathlon, but your ASIC can only swim. So should you be a smartass, you might be able to swap your "ringer" in at each stage of the event, but the ultimate speed at which it is run depends on the slowest participant. Now, the speed of a single gridseed chip is around 300-400 Kh, so even if you get a GPU to do the "cycling and the running" you're still gonna throttle at that or slower.... whereas a GOOD GPU might do the whole "triathlon" at 500kh or so, so putting the gridseed in the loop may slow it down. However, it could be the case that you could get say a 350kH throughput with a gridseed and a GPU that only does about 200 or 300 on the "triathlon" by itself. Theoretically, this might mean you could use one "good" GPU and multiple threads with 2 or 3 gridseeds and get a higher effective speed...

However, you'd probably need very custom mining software, also apart from some highly unusual situation, like SHA and scrypt coins are banned but the others aren't, you'd probably be better off letting your GPU mine what it's best at and your gridseed mine what it's best at, 'coz kludge them together and you probably end up with effective drop in production. i.e. you'd do the "triathlon" a bit faster than you GPU could, but  20% boost on that might not be worth as much as letting your GPU do it's normal 100% on anything GPUable, and your gridseed do 100% on scrypt.

So apart from for "shits and giggles" there's not much motivation for anyone to do it anyway. The "Application Specific" part of the the abbreviation ASIC is quite a big clue here, it's a one trick pony, you can put the trick in sequence with other tricks, but if the trick is "backflip through a hoop" you can't change that to "backflip though a flaming hoop" if some scrypt variations do that.

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Will the Gridseed Dual Miner mine the scrypt-n coins?   or scrypt-jane coins? 

Will they ever be able to?

Is it a software of hardware thing?

Thanks for any insight.