Quote from: dmwardjr on May 22, 2018, 01:56:41 AM

Quote from: madmartyk on May 22, 2018, 01:54:15 AM

No one has mentioned a group that really wants ASICs to hit the market for all algos, and that is the gamers. They have been bitching about the prices of GPUs going higher and higher because of miners.

I have been through it all, GPUs, Gridseed blades, Antminers, more GPUs, and on and on. My son, who is a gamer has been doing nothing but bitching about the high price of GPUs, so he is pro ASIC.

As I said before, it's clear that Bitmain can now produce an ASIC for any algo. No one is complaining about Baikal miners, why because they are not Bitmain. But yet they are multi-algo miners.

Just watch, if there is another algo with a high value coin attached to it, there will be an ASIC for it. Now you have FPGAs coming out that can mine any algo. What are the pro GPU people going to do then?

I see FPGA in the same category as GPU. Are they dominantly controlled by ONE company? Even if they were, aren't they used for more than one purpose like GPU's? Can they be easily banned by governments like ASIC's can when shipped into a country? I'm even thinking about buying some myself. Takes some "know how" though or relying on someone else who Knows how.

The point of competition induced by multiple FPGA suppliers is an important one. This will ultimately drive price down over the long run.