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sha-256 Alt Coins?

Okay, so there are no asic miners for sha-256 coins? is that correct?

 

If so it might make sense to jump on the wagon with a gpu that has been acquired on the cheap that's just laying around (I'm at uni atm free electric...well sort of)

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SHA-256 is what Bitcoin uses.

so what do other ones use that makes them unable to be asic mined?

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There are a dozen other algorithms but the three that are still active and does not have ASICs are X11, Scrypt-N and Lyra2RE.

Ahh, I see that's good, do any of the large alt coins use these? I'd like to get my feet wet with cpu or gpu mining a bit maybe for a month or so just for knowledge more or less, but profit is also nice.

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Ahh, I see that's good, do any of the large alt coins use these? I'd like to get my feet wet with cpu or gpu mining a bit maybe for a month or so just for knowledge more or less, but profit is also nice.

fairly sure that dogecoin is a decent one for gpu mining.

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Dogecoin use Scrypt which as been saturated with ASICs.

 

ah, alrighty :P

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Dogecoin use Scrypt which as been saturated with ASICs.

can any algorithm be made to accomadate ASICs? or are some impervious to that?

 

Edit: because I'm sort of looking for one that won't ever have ASICs as I think they are more stable with a broader population mining.

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The algorithms I mentioned are specifically designed to be ASIC resistant.

Oh, cool that's appealing. However, I assume resistant is far from full proof. Thank you for the information, I may look for one of these coins then to get my feet wet.

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check multipool if you are going to pool mine after plus scyrpt-n has really scummy asics right now but that means its borked try x11 it seems to be the most profitable for this 

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Non-Major, Just started up...

https://www.ziftrcoin.com/

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/320333-ziftrcoin/

 

ZiftrCOIN is not Asicbound yet.

It's currently CPU-ONLY (even playing field) for a little bit longer then moving into GPU mining.

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