Hello everyone,
I just want you to know that we're still going over all of your feedback and our team is carefully considering everything you say. The Dero team knows that this level of network hash is not a positive thing. However, I don't think it's been pointed out yet how stable and resilient Dero's network has been.
It's easy to get caught up on the things that are troubling you. I believe this is where the saying "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" comes from.
I think it's critically important to recognize that while others shifted their PoW algos, Dero fixed and continued to work on the issues that allowed so many networks to be attacked recently.
Please don't take that as we're ignoring the ASIC issue, what Dero is doing is looking at the issue from a different perspective and fixing the underlying problems before addressing what exacerbated them.
Serena, the robustness of the Dero daemon is a great sentiment, but telling people to focus on the good is not how business works. You have to keep your customers and shareholders happy which is a fickle thing. You can have the best product in the world but people will always want more. In my work I do not see that as a burden, but as a blessing. People are so interested in the project theyre willing to spend their own free time to communicate what they are hoping for/thinking about. What would be much worse is radio silence about the issues.
As for the ASIC issue, from a comparative perspective, deprioritising ASIC resistance is precisely what it looks from the outside. Im not saying thats a good or bad thing here, only that other coins set the bar in how rapidly that change can be implemented (Monero and Sumokoin within a handful of days of Baikal Giant Ns hitting the consumer market). So, given what weve seen in the market and the bar thats been set, its hard not to arrive at that conclusion. Now, if you could help us understand why specifically DERO is choosing (it does appear this is a choice decision not a difficulty one) to not focus on ASIC resistance that may help allay peoples concerns.