there's already a new company set to release terrahash scrypt asics in the next few months.. so we might top that 5TH sooner than you think. but if you look at how market cap works.. the reason why market cap will increase is because of the amount of new coins generated in relation to the price that it holds at in the balance between miners, dumpers and buyers. basically.. if a new coin has mined 100 coins so far.. and it's market cap is $100.. to raise the market cap to $150 all youd have to do is mine 50 more coins.. not even send them to the market or anything.. but have them register on the block chain. market cap can increase while value decreases.. but ideally we want to have both market cap rising from new coins being generated as well as investors moving up the value of each coin. we can achieve that by making sure we have demanded technolgies that attract investors as well as slowing down the amount of coins that can be generated per day.
the asics will always enjoy much larger profit margins and so the temptation to dump faster than market growth will also be much larger. effectively the asic gets to sell all of his coins before the gpu miners can. and all can mean mining out the whole block chain and keep the price suppressed below anyone elses willingness to sell. which is what i think we are seeing with noble.
Please provide me a source documenting TH/s sCrypt ASICs. I have not heard about this at all. A 1TH/s miner would be well over 3 times the magnitude greater than the Titans that KNC are scheduled to deliver during Q3. And their second batch that is slated for end of Q4 will most likely only be a ~25% hash improvement. With the geometries involved in making their Titan I can’t possibly see a sCrypt miner with 1TH/s power in the same form factor as a Titan even in the next three years. And if something like that comes out, that’ll solidify the place of sCrypt coins in the cryptocurrency world.
As for “larger profit margins” I agree and disagree. I agree that the luckiest few that get miners first will be able to enjoy significant profit parity; but as more and more people get ASICs, that parity dwindles substantially as ASIC becomes the norm. In the end, the ones who suffer are the GPU miners who refuse to get ASICs. And frankly, I’m not all too sorry for that; just like all businesses equipment and hardware has to change with each new iteration. I know some will argue for the hobbyists, but let's be honest, name me one other hobby that returns as much as coin mining for relatively little effort? People should feel lucky that they have been able to have such a handsomely rewarding hobby like this for this long. Anyhow, getting back on track. Security should be a trumping factor in the worthiness of a public ledger. As for what GPUs should move on to? The next algorithm basically. It’s a cycle that in my eyes will keep happening until there is once again too much saturation in algorithms. By then though, I don’t see 99% of the coins that exist today still being around.
The more and more I look at this, the more I see GPUs just being the gateway to determining what will be the next algorithm to secure. And maybe at the end of the road, GPUs can go back to doing what they were designed to do: rendering video and displays.
a small error on my part for not reading the report thoroughly but here it is
https://terrahash.com/product/terrahash-dx-large/it seems the company's name and product is called the terrahash. these will run at 180gh meaning if someone bought 5 theyd be able to generate about $1000 a day from any coin in BTC. this is not good for the value of crypto. asics have a better place in pos coin multipools.. generating constant buy pressure on coins on the market and generating growth in value. which in turn attracts more investors. on the contrary.. i predict that the availability of higher and higher asic rates at cheaper and cheaper prices will only serve to absolutely rape the scrypt asic coins and their value will drop again violently as it did from .04btc/mh per 24hrs.. to now.. 0.001btc in the months from december to march. the coins will not be able to generate enough investment and mining profitability will fall across the board. the scrypt protocol can be considered compromised in my view because of this.
i imagine however, that a terrahash model will not be far out of view for this company considering their name.
EDIT: ok on closer inspection this is a standard bitcoin asic.. but there are these
http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/news/kncminer-upgrades-titan-scrypt-asic-100-mhs-250-mhs-free-charge/2014/03/27and this
https://www.mining-asics-technologies.com/product/excalibur-5-asic-scrypt-miner-250-mhs/so 2 of these would be able to dump 1btc+ worth of coins per day. and more depending on profitability. realize i mixed up my Ghs and Mhs above there.. im a bit tired and it's late lol. but the same theology applies. scrypt coins are most vulnerable to asic farm attacks in the future which will make them the weakest coins on the market. their value can be suppressed for a long time.