I have seen how the mining community has been hating on the ASIC miner existence
Their excuse is that it is not fair to the guys using GPU
So when did we as humans become resistant to better technology?
GPU drinks lots of power compared to what it is chunking out and ASIC is hundred and thousand folds more efficient and yet people are opposed to the technology
Lets remove the Bitmain issue out of this (another post for another day)
This is basically discussion on why are there coins claiming to be ASIC-resistant aka (we dont want better technology and want to burn more and more electricity using GPU)
So if you are an ASIC-resistant dev of NeoScrypt dev for example
Please join me on this dicsussion
Pretty much what MagicSmoke said. ASIC doesn't make sense. If there is a way to do mining with hardware commonly available to many, this would be the ideal from a number of angles:
* Decentralization
* Adoption
* Spread
* Reusability
Creating a device, shipping it across to the other sider of the world, only to be used for a couple of months, and then end up on the scrap yard is just a waste of resources.