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Topic: Scrypt ASIC (Read 588 times)

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February 22, 2014, 10:27:17 AM
#11
Well spotted! I didn't know about this one... I'll update the list! Thank you.
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February 22, 2014, 10:13:35 AM
#10
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February 22, 2014, 10:09:06 AM
#9
What are you talkin' about? Scrypt asic's are already hashing. Maybe not next gen asics but first gen yeah plenty have been hashing all month.
Link to where they are sold? I couldn't afford one even if I wanted to, this is why I am concerned.
Hello!
ASIC available at present are only gridseed based-products: gridseed 5 chips miners (circular shape) and dualminer.com (1 gridseed chip)
FPGA products currently shipping: ltcgear.com (~300 kH/sec)

Full informations of all developers/projects here:
https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=6506.0
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February 22, 2014, 10:06:56 AM
#8
Well theres no point of buying one. But they cost around 1700€
legendary
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Reverse engineer from time to time
February 22, 2014, 09:11:07 AM
#7
What are you talkin' about? Scrypt asic's are already hashing. Maybe not next gen asics but first gen yeah plenty have been hashing all month.
Link to where they are sold? I couldn't afford one even if I wanted to, this is why I am concerned.
member
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February 22, 2014, 09:10:13 AM
#6
Yep, but something like 70kh/s and for some serious cash...
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February 22, 2014, 08:41:36 AM
#5
What are you talkin' about? Scrypt asic's are already hashing. Maybe not next gen asics but first gen yeah plenty have been hashing all month.
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February 22, 2014, 08:39:32 AM
#4
Scrypt needs much memory and a very good, fast way to send and retrieve data form and to it.
This is very expensive to achieve, so I think that the ROI for asic is very long. If for some reason
people start to use different protocol for alt-coins, those very expensive ASICs are worthless.

So GPU is the way to go, best would be to develop an energy-efficient GPU with Scrypt-mining in
thoughts. This would be the no.1 choice for everyone’s GPU. Just a hint for AMD/Ndivia Wink
I bet AMD makes a ton of money just because of alt-coins.
hero member
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February 22, 2014, 08:22:14 AM
#3
Coins that use Scrypt-Jane and Nfactor are even more ASIC resistant so GPUs would still be the best way to mine them.
sr. member
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February 22, 2014, 07:35:54 AM
#2
yes i think so
legendary
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Reverse engineer from time to time
February 22, 2014, 07:35:36 AM
#1
Haven't really read up on anything asic related to scrypt, but if one does come out...GPU mining will be dead - sad. The market will be flooded with used AMD cards and the prices of AMD GPUs will probably also fall.
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