But for big coins it looks like devs are afraid to change anything
They have already considered on doing forks, XMR in a few weeks, ETH got a high votes for a fork to brick asics, X16r also can do forks
Hi @philipma1957 ,
miners do secure blockchains,
it does not matter what device is used.
It does matter as Cryptos considered and supposedly a "decentralized" coin, imagine a large hashing power only owns by the big whales as they are the only one who can afford to buy the large portion of machines.
The value of a coin does not come out of "how" it is mined.
And the mining profitability suffered which leads to small miners also give up