Who cares? As long as at least 1 person does some mining, we are fine.
I'm actually looking to pick up at least 1 S9-performance-equivalent miner, just to keep a single system mining for the principle of it, to go along my full node and LN node.
Don't want to support Bitmain.
Doesn't seem I have any other options available to me at this time.
Here's hoping those products out of Japan come online soon, or dare to dream Bitfury ever reconsiders coming back down to earth.
I heard Canaan is a decent company.
If you don't want Canaan stuff, you better wait for the upcoming products from either Halong Mining or GMO.
btw, I don't have anything against miners as long as they don't act like retards. I would mine bitcoin and secure my investments too if i had the chance. But this whole ASIC thing and lack of customer support/bad distribution network moved me away from it. Now i'm mining BURST because its goddamn easy to do so.