@ink_slinger according to steam, I've averaged ~1 hour per day since release of CS:GO in 2012, unfortunately most of my time pre-2004 ( cs source + steam account creation) is untracked.
@stefanhayden I've considered doing this many times, figured no one would find it very interesting. hard to read all the text, i'd likely not be paying attention to chat trying to think through problems.
@Tryphon Unfortunately for normal people, this algorithm hopping will likely lead to the creation a "good enough" ASIC fab framework so they can quickly jump with the changes.
I think people forget that GPUs are (were) ASICs, that developed over decades to do general purpose work. The same will happen for mining ASICs assuming the market is still strong enough to warrant capital investment.
@Tryphon for the democratization of the power, not everyone has the same buying power as China for hardware and private hardware development, while the "security" of the network depends on distributing the work fairly.
For the most part, the complex algorithms only make it more expensive for ASIC miners to develop their chips, and changing POW algorithms frequently makes it cost prohibitive from an investment point of view to do it over and over.
@tty@FssOfDeath@Supernova@ink_slinger just kidding, I found one, someone is making a request for XML -- which the API doesn't support for all endpoints.