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Is SHA3 the future? Scrypt coin have been around a couple of years and we're in the beginning very accesible to the normal non-crypto users. Just like bitcoin was before ASIC miners. Nowadays, multipools and ASIC's are controlling the coins. Coins don't even get a chance, they're mined and dumped, if they make it to an exchange. But still developers use scrypt, just look at the [Altcoincalender](http://www.altcoincalendar.info/). It's just scrypt after scrypt with the occasional SHA256. Everyday I scramble accros the announcement section on bitcointalk to find coins that will stick out. I found out about a new coin that uses SHA3 called Slothcoin, on the first hand it looks like another dogecoin clone, but i found out the developer has apparantly put a little thought into it, when i read the "piece" he wrote [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/Slothcoinproject/comments/20a64r/welcome_to_the_slothcoin_subreddit_have_a_look/). He is making some good points about SHA3 being the only one(currently), that is still completely open to outsiders. It's still a bit in a buggy starting phase and needs some polishing, but that will come later. But what he wrote really opened my eyes. Dogecoin's succes comes and still comes from being an open-to-everyone currency, people liked that idea and formed a community around it. AND, people like new things, look at other SHA3 coin like 365Coin and Maxcoin. They both are greatly liked on the forums and their posts are filled with "scrypt haters". In my eyes SHA3 is the long term future. Scrypt coins and SHA256 coins, that have established and have an active userbase, will still have a future. And SHA3 will probably replaced in the even-longer-term. But right now, I think it's good to invest in SHA3 coins, as they are the future.