Quote from: dmwardjr on May 24, 2018, 04:24:02 AM

Quote from: piratek on May 23, 2018, 02:52:35 PM

Man the ASIC hate here! ASICs and FPGAs are the wave of the future. So get ready to sell your GPUs back to the gamers, that's what they were made for. ASICs are made for mining.

So quit crying.

I'll say again:

GPUs are WAY more available to get then ASICs. To say GPUs are currently hard to get is incorrect. Sure there was a month or 2 when they were overpriced, that was due to the high demand when they had a ROI of 90 days.

Even then you could still buy a smaller graphics card, they were not ALL sold out. The 1070/1080 TIs were the hard ones to get, other models were more available.

What advantage would we have if everyone moved to ASICs? It would just raise the current bar for everyone, reduce us to one supplier of hardware, and starts a arms race. Atleast with GPUs we are all on a level playing field without having to worry someone will have a GPU that does x100 the hashrate for 1/10th the power. All the hardware is relatively close to each other in terms of performance, keeping the difficulty from ramping up x10-x100.

ASICs dont save power, they dont make the network more secure, they are limited in availability, only have 3 to 6 month warrantys, run loud and hot, manufacturers keep a large number of the them for themselves and keep secret other rigs that are far better then sell them as new later while replacing them with new hardware, etc...

This is suppose to be a ASIC resistant coin, why dont you ASIC people go mine other ASIC coins available. Ohhhh ya thats right, you cant make your money back off them ASIC coins anymore because of the difficulty have ramped up so much. So you want to come and ruin Zcashs difficulty with ASICs to make a quick buck and act like its the future of mining. I'm HERE to tell you, that QUICK buck is an ILLUSION.

If there was a perfect boycott by all of us. The asic builders would simply build and mine for them selves.

Wont be more then one year for all current algos to be cracked.

Of course anyone in favor of asics or FPGA over gpus is a complete and true idiot or and here is the big or someone with very good connections to asics or fpga gear.

Hey if I had the z9 in December I would be pro asic .

I had a b52 sent to me to review it was making good money for 25 days not anymore.
This can be done to any coin right now asics are building out and it kills coin pricing.

Because the asic builders are cashing out the coin. From the sale and from, mining before they sold

If bitmain was holding all the coin sent to them the last four months the price of coin would be higher.