What is the algo of feathercoin?
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Did feather coin change to script-n or is it still just script
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lol
No, FTC changed to Neoscrypt, which is something completely different than Scrypt-N.
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So can you mine Neoscrypt with scrypt miners or only gpu mining is available
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could you say when was the change made
and what hardware is usable (table of hash rate of gpus)
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26th of October 2014 (few days ago)
You can mine with AMD gpus, Nvidia gpus (yes they are actually hashing Neoscrypt pretty good) or even with you CPU.
New AMD GPU=±100kH/s
For more values browse this forum, there is plenty of values for many cards, but no official table yet.
ASICs are not supported and that status will not change for years.
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NeoScrypt can be mined with CPU and GPU miners. NeoScrypt makes GPU mining viable again after the invasion of scrypt ASIC’s and even makes CPU mining worth it as it’s less of a difference between GPU output and a CPU miners output.
The change was on the 26th of October
As for mining stats for cards etc it’s early days but check out this thread.
https://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?/topic/7929-gpu-comparison-neoscrypt/ -
From what I can see neoscrypt is 3 times harder for the GPU and about the same CPU than the scrypt algorythm.
Perhaps because of the proportion of memory allocation to processing, it does run cooler. Totally efficiency is yet to be accessed.
The important question is security and neoscrypt is more complex than scrypt. i.e. each hash is takes more work, so it takes less hashes to secure the transaction, but each is harder to break.
The neoscrypt algo was designed to operate as hardened scrypt replacement. As I understood it, Ghostlander found that shortcuts in the litecoin scrypt usage made it easier to produce an scrypt ASIC, than it could have been.
This was not a mistake at the time, all Litecoin had to do was prevent Bitcoin ASIC from swamping their coin.
A lot of feathercoin members have made great efforts to move us over to GPU mining and have all the facilities available for interested parties to follow or get involved.
The move, away from scrypt, was made in a similar way, to prevent Litecoin ASIC miners from swamping feathercoins hash rate.
Feathercoin coin is returning to GPU mining until a feathercoin specific ASIC is developed.
One ASIC per coin, that could possibly be achieved with open hardware that is coded for feathercoin. That code is then included in a future soft fork release to make the ASIC operate only with Feathercoin. As opposed to design an ASIC to just do neoscrypt.
i.e. The change over prove we could switch to X-scrypt + ASIC with FTC key, at a future time.
