Quote from: sjyi on May 27, 2018, 01:52:51 AM

Quote from: BenRickert on May 15, 2018, 12:44:00 PM

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Hardware is infinitely more flexible than Software in these coins. The Hardware manufacturers can adjust their specs to circumvent these forks fairly quickly.
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Due to the nature of the beast, hardware can NOT be more flexible than software. Granted some of the system/network issues associated with hard-forking a coin needs to be considered carefully within the software. But the system considerations are not the indications of inflexibility of software. Sure, the design cycle of ASIC is becoming much shorter but the inherent inflexibility of hardware hasn't disappeared. If the hardware is that much more flexible than software, why not just implement the entire aspects of coin in hardware?

Who would you rather be? The Software developer that has to rewrite the software of your protocol to fork away from the ASIC, or the Hardware manufacturer who changes the Algo to hash on the new forked protocol? I'll take the latter....every time.