Re: Risk of ASIC proliferation

Quote from: DobZombie on January 17, 2013, 02:15:00 PM

Quote from: witherworth on January 17, 2013, 05:17:10 AM

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

Well that's because FPGAs were only marginally faster then GPUs. Their main advantage was in power savings. A closer analogy would be when GPUs started mining, and completely dominated the CPU mining network.

See that giant rise around the middle of 2010? That's when Poclbm was released.