ASICs increase network speed. Increased network speed leads to a more secure network.
they increase network hashrate, not speed. Nothing but the design of the coin and block time scheme effect the speed of coins generated/transacted.
to increase the network speed; you must remove transport overhead and other associated data.....
Adding a S9 to the BTC network doesn't speed it up at all... it just adds to nethash and block diff requirements....
If there was a way to limit nethash; then you would be onto something useful in your conceptual goal.
ASICS become paperweights.
If your notion that ASICS are good overall; you are sorely mistaken IMHO.
And Ill quote my original reply from this thread many pages earlier:
the real fix I can see for this is:
someone needs to come up with a hashrate stabilized way of mining the algo; how this can be done purely client-side: we need to brainstorm.
SSL uses timestamps; maybe we can figure out some sort of deal like this to give an overall hashrate impact on result difficulty requirement.
I.E. After X hashrate, your diff increases to offset to be a virtual X hashrate. This type of scheme, can be made to force out high hashrate devices but mainly pools in general.
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There are solutions to "anti-asic". people need to "think 4th dimensionally" and consider the objective not the mathamatics side; because the math is what the asic is good at. Make the "meta"; the way of obtaining the result: the anti-asic strategy itself instead of the algo's individual mathematic calculations.
food for thought.
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