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Oh, now its the argument of safety for the blockchain.
Sounds like the usual fear mongering. Suddenly the blockchains are in danger, without ASICs.
Altcoins were just fine without ASICs. Bitcoin would be much better off without them.

Why should I throw my money at a bunch of elite wankers trying to take another business over, if it's avoidable?


The same reason you threw your money at a gpu.

A gridseed unit costs $160 and hashes at 350 kh/s  w/ power use: 7 Watts
An R9 270 GPU costs $200 and hashes at 450 kh/s  w/ power use: 150 watts

You decide.
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You shouldn't.  You should bale on all sha and scrypt coins (except perhaps bitcoin itself)
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Oh, now its the argument of safety for the blockchain.
Sounds like the usual fear mongering. Suddenly the blockchains are in danger, without ASICs.
Altcoins were just fine without ASICs. Bitcoin would be much better off without them.

Why should I throw my money at a bunch of elite wankers trying to take another business over, if it's avoidable?
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From one dev to another, go x11. asics by gridseed are literally selling out all over in 2 months all coins that hope to be GPU mined will need a new asic resistant algo. I've followed your coin for awhile, give your loyal ppl x11 algorithm and you can cut mining cost but maintain a great hashrate to secure the blockchain, its a win win.

This. Seems the scrypt ASICs will absolutely destroy most scrypt coins. Any coin wanting to stay around is going to need X11.

Or some other ASIC hostile algorithm.
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From one dev to another, go x11. asics by gridseed are literally selling out all over in 2 months all coins that hope to be GPU mined will need a new asic resistant algo. I've followed your coin for awhile, give your loyal ppl x11 algorithm and you can cut mining cost but maintain a great hashrate to secure the blockchain, its a win win.

This. Seems the scrypt ASICs will absolutely destroy most scrypt coins. Any coin wanting to stay around is going to need X11.

Exactly. Dev already made the stupid announcement that the coin isn't switching from scrypt and the price crashed IMMEDIATELY

By the time ASICs really become relevant for this coin (3+ months at least), we will already have 25% of scheduled coins in circulation. The added security of ASICs will be worth it by then. 100 million+ coins will be in circulation in just a couple months...buy coins directly if you don't want to get an asic.

There is no added security quite the opposite actually. It's going to open the coin up to being 51% attacked. Most of the people purchasing asics are doing so to mine ltc and have no interest in holding other coins long term, they will simply mine them to dump them. And since the majority of the ASIC users aren't going to be loyal potcoin holders, there is a good chance they will take all that hash power and use it to attack the blockchain. Buy coins directly? So you admit ASICs at the very least will take the mining power out of the hands of the average user and centralize it to huge private corporations. Sounds like the US dollar and the federal reserve all over again.

Yes there is always added security in increased hash power. They also generate less heat and consume far less energy.

As for the comment about the average person being excluded by ASICs, its just wrong. The average person doesn't own a GPU farm. The average user can't afford or aren't even capable of drawing that amount of power from their residence. Go ahead you try and run a 7-8 mh/s gpu rig out of your apartment. Heat and electricity are the bane of my existence. I have been threatened by both my apartment management group and the electric company. I give them a great big middle finger every time but I know I'm not the only one having these problems.

ASICs make it possible for the average guy (ME!) to have a reasonable level of hash power and not burn the apartment complex down. Just like the block erupters were before, these new ones are competitively priced to GPUs. Just invest in an asic and sell your gpu/cpu mining farms. Nobody is going to take a network seriously when its secured by GPUs running out of milk crates in people's basements.
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From one dev to another, go x11. asics by gridseed are literally selling out all over in 2 months all coins that hope to be GPU mined will need a new asic resistant algo. I've followed your coin for awhile, give your loyal ppl x11 algorithm and you can cut mining cost but maintain a great hashrate to secure the blockchain, its a win win.

This. Seems the scrypt ASICs will absolutely destroy most scrypt coins. Any coin wanting to stay around is going to need X11.

Exactly. Dev already made the stupid announcement that the coin isn't switching from scrypt and the price crashed IMMEDIATELY

By the time ASICs really become relevant for this coin (3+ months at least), we will already have 25% of scheduled coins in circulation. The added security of ASICs will be worth it by then. 100 million+ coins will be in circulation in just a couple months...buy coins directly if you don't want to get an asic.

There is no added security quite the opposite actually. It's going to open the coin up to being 51% attacked. Most of the people purchasing asics are doing so to mine ltc and have no interest in holding other coins long term, they will simply mine them to dump them. And since the majority of the ASIC users aren't going to be loyal potcoin holders, there is a good chance they will take all that hash power and use it to attack the blockchain. Buy coins directly? So you admit ASICs at the very least will take the mining power out of the hands of the average user and centralize it to huge private corporations. Sounds like the US dollar and the federal reserve all over again. "POT"coin should be one of the first to make adjustments to fight against centralization considering the motive.
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From one dev to another, go x11. asics by gridseed are literally selling out all over in 2 months all coins that hope to be GPU mined will need a new asic resistant algo. I've followed your coin for awhile, give your loyal ppl x11 algorithm and you can cut mining cost but maintain a great hashrate to secure the blockchain, its a win win.

This. Seems the scrypt ASICs will absolutely destroy most scrypt coins. Any coin wanting to stay around is going to need X11.

Exactly. Dev already made the stupid announcement that the coin isn't switching from scrypt and the price crashed IMMEDIATELY

By the time ASICs really become relevant for this coin (3+ months at least), we will already have 25% of scheduled coins in circulation. The added security of ASICs will be worth it by then. 100 million+ coins will be in circulation in just a couple months...buy coins directly if you don't want to get an asic.
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hero member
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From one dev to another, go x11. asics by gridseed are literally selling out all over in 2 months all coins that hope to be GPU mined will need a new asic resistant algo. I've followed your coin for awhile, give your loyal ppl x11 algorithm and you can cut mining cost but maintain a great hashrate to secure the blockchain, its a win win.

This. Seems the scrypt ASICs will absolutely destroy most scrypt coins. Any coin wanting to stay around is going to need X11.

Exactly. Dev already made the stupid announcement that the coin isn't switching from scrypt and the price crashed IMMEDIATELY
hero member
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From one dev to another, go x11. asics by gridseed are literally selling out all over in 2 months all coins that hope to be GPU mined will need a new asic resistant algo. I've followed your coin for awhile, give your loyal ppl x11 algorithm and you can cut mining cost but maintain a great hashrate to secure the blockchain, its a win win.

This. Seems the scrypt ASICs will absolutely destroy most scrypt coins. Any coin wanting to stay around is going to need X11.
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From one dev to another, go x11. asics by gridseed are literally selling out all over in 2 months all coins that hope to be GPU mined will need a new asic resistant algo. I've followed your coin for awhile, give your loyal ppl x11 algorithm and you can cut mining cost but maintain a great hashrate to secure the blockchain, its a win win.
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Hello,
Is this coin dead already?

BR,

Gondel

Yep.  RIP Potcoin.

sarcasm indeed, and I would think if its trading and being mined still alot heavily compared to any previous time before, its still alive, I am not giving up on it anyway and would suggest others not do so either. It hasn't even worldwide launched yet anyway.
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legendary
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Hello,
Is this coin dead already? If not i a selling seeds shipping worldwide, if you are interested you can PM me.

BR,

Gondel
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I think the price does't matter so much for now, as long as it doesn't fall off a cliff.
Exposure is more important and it will rise on news if the market develops.
If you are a believer, get them cheap now. Let the dump miners do the dirty work.

The talk about changing algos won't go away anymore.
I'm doing Darkcoin since yesterday and I already enjoy the silence and lack of heat mining X11.
My power bill will be cut in half. The chart for the coin looks amazing.

A lot of the hassle regarding fundamental changes in the software would be taken away, if there were an in-app update method contained in the wallet.
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also look here

Bitcoin Crashes, Loses Half Of Its Value In Two Days
Tyler Durden's pictureSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 12/07/2013 10:27 -0400

 after hating it at $200 only to love it at $1200 that Bitcoin... would promptly crash. And crash it did: overnight, following previously reported news that China's Baidu would follow the PBOC in halting acceptance of Bitcoin payment, Bitcoin tumbled from a recent high of $1155 to an almost electronically destined "half-off" touching $576 hours ago, exactly 50% lower, on very heave volume, before a dead cat bounce levitated the currency back to the $800

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-07/bitcoin-crashes-loses-half-its-value-two-days

So if miners still love their potcoin and just as I have seen no shortage of miners or sellers, people are not stop mining potcoin, not people not stop selling potcoin. So supply and demand, and I can only see more of it happening in the future. Also it is said if you read previous articles I posted above, they say something like the big rise in  bitcoin price was pumped by 47 top account holders. Now we are more diversified and coins of pot in more peoples hands so not as easy to manipulate prices in future as it may now as we are seeing now on potcoin.
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looks like the miners control this coin.  Soon there will be 100 million outstanding and it will be impossible to get to $1.00 with that many coins out.  we are going lower and lower.  they can stop this by halving but miners rule.  

So you would rather one or two big investors hold all the coins? How about you start mining and supporting our network instead of trying to make a few bucks off of it.

Mining is what distributes the coins as well as secures the network. Never heard anybody criticize miners for being greedy before...

The free market will decide what this coin is worth, we shouldn't need to alter it for artificial gains.
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