Here is Dero's official statement regarding ASICs: We are aware of their existence and once the appropriate information is available we can deal with them. Without providing technical details we do have a fairly strong idea of how these are built and what they're built with.
Information will be shared publicly regarding exactly how these ASICs work once people around the world get their hands on them to take them apart. If by some small chance the CryptoNight community does not work together to solve this problem (that would be a FIRST) I will personally drop the $20,000 USD to buy the 3 well advertised ASICs to let our developers literally tear them apart and you can hold me to that.
Hi Serena,
Since DERO has been rewriting cryptonight in golang for a while now, would a change to prevent ASICs take even longer for DERO to adopt? Most other cryptonight coins can just copy/paste the new algo and be done since they are just clones for the most part. Would it be wise for DERO to start now?
A change to the POW will not take longer at this time for Dero and has been on the radar for quite some time.