Of course they are. You can't read between the lines?
For a long while, my birdies have been chirping about X11 hardware implementations in the wild. I always knew it was possible - as I know some hardware dev, but then the first whispers came. Then more and more. As of late, maybe a couple...
One chip should do more, depending on the clock speed. I mean, Lord knows you're gonna need quite a few clock ticks to close timing on X11, but even then, this seems pretty bad for ASIC.
I'm disappointed. I guess you didn't try very hard, but still, for an X11 ASIC, this is a bit of a letdown. How many clock ticks does it take for a given amount of X11 hashes from the chip? And what frequency is the 2MH/s figure gotten from?
I'd consider the idea, but would discard it because I'd want to keep mining and dumping it for a while, continuing to make money - trying to lower the price to accumulate is a risky move, as it's VERY possible to destroy all faith in a coin and leave its market stagnant forever.
About the pools...
Except first, you never KNOW who mined a block. To do so would be to tie an IP address to the coin address. You only know who RELAYED it. And if you're mining with a botnet, you've got PLENTY of IPs. You people are thinking WAY too hard.
I condone them; I actually considered creating one, but I really can't be fucked to take care of it and herd bots. It'd be fun to have, though, like a pet. Distributed supercomputer.
Do you need a CAT scan? In a system where any address can belong to ANYONE, and any person can generate...
That's not a solution, that's amputating your leg because it bothers you sometimes. A proper implementation of GBT on pool and miner sides, as well as a good percentage of miners ALSO running full nodes, is MORE than enough.