When FPGA came out, did all the GPU miners pack up and call it quits, leaving only FPGa units? Nope.
Yeah the network hashrate didn't jump up a giant percentage when FPGA units joined
No, but they also did not increase hashing power on the scale that ASIC will either. Where are all the CPU miners today? GPU mining pushed them into obsolescence. When FPGA miners were released, people realised the end is neigh for GPU, and it seems as if ASIC will drive the nails into the coffin for GPU.
Perhaps we'll have botnet operators to thank for the backup distributed hashing power of CPU and GPU, if all else fails..
This is likely a non-issue, the thought occurred to me the other day and I'm looking for more powerful minds to hash out the details
