Your delusional if you think GPU and ASIC mining is comparable. ANYONE can buy a gpu and fire up a rig. yeah maybe the big boys could get thier GPUs from the source maybe 50% cheaper than the regular joe but at least everyone has a shot.
The way the ASIC bs works now , is its propriety they ASIC makers basically mine the hell out of watever with the ASICs the develop and either sell the tattered masses chips that have been blasted to hell for months or old tech 55nano crap they want to upgrade out of
so they get to keep out money AND mine at the same time its a total joke.
its not like AMD and Nvidia are biting the hand that feeds them like the Asic companies do so i trust them far more.
Not to say that if all coins were GPU mined it would not be harder to the average joe to find blocks or watever but thats what pools are for. Any sane home miner would rather go back to GPU mining than stay with ASICs becuase the whole ASIC game is doubly rigged
its not just the money they have over you its the hoarding of the Tech they get away with too or outright just ripping fools off lol , hello KNC, Black Arrow the list goes on.
Never heard of AMD or Nvidia taking peoples money and not giving them what they paid for right ? i didn't think so.
So you are saying home miners running 5-6 GPUs can compete with mines running thousands? How is that different from people on the forum with a couple miners here or there versus ASIC farms? Also you conveniently forget to speak on the power aspect. Again large mines with cheap power will stamp out the lil guys at home just like with ASICs. I fail to see how a little guy joining a pool is gonna have a chance against a mining company with thousands on the same pool.
As far as the hardware companies go, I never mentioned anything about any of them so I am not sure why you ran off on that tangent when responding to my comments. As far as that goes, there is a VERY old saying....caveat emptor. Do your research before you buy things, if you get suckered in by pre-orders from a small specialty company without a long track record that is 100% your fault.
I mean the large video card manufacturers never ever release bad hardware right?
Ill just leave this right here.....
http://www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-ceo-addresses-gtx-970-controversy/