Quote from: debianlinux on March 13, 2013, 08:04:51 PM

Ultimately, for the network to survive, there has to be mass adoption and near insurmountable hashpower to secure it. ASIC represents the coming of age for Bitcoin. Why would anyone who is not hoping for a pump and dump not wish the same for Litecoin?

for this reason

mass produced computers will advance faster than asics to ascis.

Eg the amount of R&D into mass produced computers is far more than asics can match, so the next generation of intel/amd whatever will be far faster than the last.

the next generation of asics not so much as opposed to the last generation.

Thus an algorithim hash that uses a normal computers will grow larger with each generation more than asic generations.

plus the potential of 100 millions as a userbase, not just 10, 000's asics.

LTC being resistant to ASIC maybe the feature that allows it to overtake BTC in the end, as more people want to be in, as a miner/transactor as well as a LTC user.

Further having millions in allows the network to be vastly more secure rather than a few easily identifiable ASIC farms