So it's goodbye to all us small scale DASH miners. All these ridiculous hash rate ASICs coming out recently are going to make it pointless.
I have about 450mh/s between a Baikal Mini and a Baikal Cube. I guess I'll be looking for coin alternatives for X11 mining rather than DASH, or maybe I'll just use one of the other algos it does - quark, qubit, X13,X14 or X15.
This also means (if I'm not mistaken) that DASH will become a Chinese coin just like Bitcoin is. I guess it depends on whether all the massive Chinese X11 farms coming in the next 3-6 months will use their first 1000 mined DASH to establish masternodes, or if they just convert mined coins to cash.
If I remember right the ORIGINAL (was it $1,200 150mh Baikal mini-cube?) ONLY mined X11 and they added the X13 and X15, etc protocols later
I expect ALL the machines, from the 5 manufacturers involved dumping x11 asics this month...WILL, have such a firmware update for the above protocols within 2 months
(It's what I'd do on the bitmain 'evil' board of directors, pretty self-evident this will happen imho soonest)