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Re: [ANN][DASH] Dash | First Anonymous Coin | Inventor of X11, DGW, Darksend and InstantX
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coins101
on 21/02/2016, 00:43:17 UTC
Quote from: TaoOfSaatoshi on February 21, 2016, 12:30:19 AM
Quote from: oaxaca on February 20, 2016, 11:48:56 PM
Quote from: coins101 on February 20, 2016, 10:49:18 PM
DASH was billed as ASIC resistant. So that has to be taken into consideration.

"resistant" means that somebody would have to invest a lot of time and trouble to pull it off.  In this case, somebody cared enough to do it. 
@oaxaca made this point on Slack. If you are a Dash investor, would you like to know that the network is secured by this:


or this:



So there's that...

Nice try.

But the reality is that warehouses of miners are located in the remote hills in China next to hydro plants.  They are behind the great firewall of China.  If you want to visit China to beg one or two miners to support a hard fork then keep kidding yourself that investors give a shit about anything other than a shiny GUI.