Quote from: crypt0r3x on June 20, 2017, 03:09:24 PM

Quote from: c6m0h3 on June 20, 2017, 02:58:46 PM

What do people think about this announcement?

The Obelisk SC1 the first ASIC built for Sia mining.

https://twitter.com/SiaTechHQ/status/877172219679563778

Confused. ASIC for mining only SIA? Why? People are speculating the ASIC miner will have more of a role in the storage infrastructure. As a GPU miner, not sure what to feel tbh.

I don't think ASIC mining is a great idea look at bitcoin and all the large mining operations that control everything. I thought their announcement was a technical one with cool features, very disappointing news.
ASIC resistant algorithm is what crypto is all about, too bad decentralized storage didn't mean mining would be too.