Topic: What is the current state of the X11 algo? What is your favorite mining algo? (Read 1466 times)

+1,yes，very cool algo

x11 is the most profitable to mine.

Its the something with you dude, its still whoever pays the most money gets the biggest share. So why not do it efficiently with a lesser carbon footprint?

ok, but those little asic will be worthless too, it's a game of who spend more, and i don't enjoy that kinda of a game, pay to win

gpu don't escalate so quickly that you can't even make a little profit before buying the new shiny machine

+1
I have to agree with you.
Before it looks like the thread is hijacked with the argument though, I must say it comes down to personal preference, there is people who wish to have coins protected from the negative possibility's of ASIC mining, possibility's that are very real and the arguments I find are usually against ASIC technology, with that said Digibyte miners may not want to have to compete with the ASIC farms that are awesome and huge, imagine pointing a warehouse of gridseed miners at Digibyte, now with that done the guy with 20 GPU's cannot hardly mine a block, so its a trade off, let ASIC technology maintain your network and lose your community and support, or restrict ASIC's and keep the small miners the community and all the support, depends on what you want to accomplish and your perspective on crypto and development.
If someone owns a huge farm and controls network hashrate then they will kind of control the network in a twisted way if they like, take BCX for example, awhile ago he was throwing out the possibility's of what he could do to a blockchain cause he was in control of the pool with the most hash, I think he was just demonstrating what decentralized means and how the coin was not secured from being centralized, at that point he was the central figure that could sway the coin one way or another, Digibyte is more susceptible to this type of centralized mining if ASIC's start mining its network, every coin eventually will run the risk of such an attack and IMO especially the ones that are trying to be ASIC resistant, cause haters will be haters on every level.

Personally all this hype about ASIC resistance is not needed. All the hate of AsicS is that it harms decentralization right? what if AsicS wer e cheap enough for everyone to use? For example some USB miners are like $100 and do 300 kh/s from zeusminer or the ones from fibonacci do like 8 mh/s or something and are like $350. Surely people mining can afford that?

X11 is far more cooler than scrypt, i link x11 very much!

What should DigiByte do about the coming Scrypt ASIC problem? Vote & here and tell us the pros and cons of your choice:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.6358181

Miners are running cooler, taking less electricity. i think general consesus is we are getting scrwed over as there are rumors around that some people have access to an optimized miner that outputs higher hash rates.

Thanks.
I thought he was criticizing the algorithm, turns out that the gpu miner isn't working properly.

Still waiting for the optimized miner, after that I will consider switching from scrypt to X11

X11 algo is great,but I think POW coins will be dead.Just a matter of time

hefty1 algo is better, the gpu run cooler not because the algo isn't optimized like x11

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.5931912

Got a link to where he said that?

The switch would occur in May, before the June/July release time frame for the first major Scrypt ASICS. The reason we have not changed yet has had a lot to do with Hazards argument. We agree that the GPU is not being fully utilized with the X11 algo.

When could someone plan for you to make this switch?
Also have you considered Hazards argument that GPU's are not running at their full potential when mining the coins using the algorithm?
Maybe wait until a miner is released to optimize the GPU's??

The popular ones now are Darkcoin, Hirocoin and Quebecoin.... then there's lower network shares for Limecoin, Muniti, Virtual Coin, Global Denomination and Logicoin.

Hirocoin , Darkcoin etc.

x11 runs much cooler on GPUs and suitable for summers.

Do you know what the current X11 coins are?