Yeah this will be third XMR fork as a miner to kick out the undesirables. I'm doing exactly what I have done in the past. A month or two prior to the scheduled fork, when the network difficulty goes sky high, I switch my Vega rig to something else. And then I hop right back on post fork.
Interesting that previous forks have seen the difficulty rise gradually before the fork, making Vegas gradually less usable, but this time it has rocketed out of control.
I wonder if the 'boom and bust' cycle of XMR's forking schedule has encouraged asic devs to speed up their process, so they go full out immediately rather than ramp up secretly.
I think its FPGAs this time, and a lot of them. I wouldn't be surprised if this round they simple update their bitstreams and hash rate goes back to where it was.
We'll know in a couple of weeks I guess.
