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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: How to defend against asics or prove Metroid wrong
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leonix007
on 31/03/2018, 15:03:26 UTC

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.

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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