Re: Bitmain E3 Ethash Miner ASIC (Shipping:16-31 July. $800 USD)

Sure you have the mobo and other stuff to add to the price, but then again that GPU based rig is more flexible in that it can mine other alogs, including new ones that may come out. Also, as others have pointed out, the GPU rig can be parted out and resold if need be, whereas the ASIC is just a paperweight.

I used to think this way.....until Bitmain started going after the 2 main algos that gpu's mine with.
I wouldnt be surprised if equihash is next...nothing is asic proof.

And no ASIC is fork proof. Hard Forks are the nightmares of Shitmain. Just fork. If they create another ASIC, fork again. They'll give up eventually trust me. Nobody can be that retarded.

True that has been floated with the launch of the X3. While I applaud the effort to fork in reality not many devs support it.
If you read Zooko's comments he would rather spend time developing the coin as opposed to using the dev teams time to continuously fork every 3-6 months.

"ZcashCo engineers have recently been chatting about mining decentralization, including such ideas as changing the Equihash params, switching to a different PoW algorithm, making non-outsourceable PoW, switching to PoS, etc My current position is that our mission is best served by improving the security, scalability, and usability of the product for end users, and that mining-decentralization is a struggle that is impossible to win in theory, and is long since lost in practice, and it is a distraction to worry too much about it. Instead I think we should design protocols which are censorship-resistant and user-protecting (and usable and scalable) even when there is only one miner in the world."
https://chat.zcashcommunity.com/channel/zcash-dev?msg=nz8oEHyACF3CHQ6HH17