It's a bit scary if we compare the 50 000 Sol/s / 620 Watt = 80.6 Watt/Sol ratio with the current Nvidia GPU 50 000 Sol/s / 12 500 Watt = 4 Watt/Sol ratio. That makes ASIC miners over 20 times more efficient in power consumption.
It really amplifies the importance of ZHash algo change in the fight against centralization represented by ASICs.
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BitcoinZ: In Decentralization We TrustI guess that means buy the dip and hope some one don't run of..
GFU? Does the word even exist ? "The Innosilicon A9 ZMaster should cost $9999 USD with a PSU".
ROI on that Asic would probably be negative and it would destroy the coin because of skyhigh diff and gpu miners don't bothering to mine any more.
Ya really its like bringing a 50 caliber machine gun to a knife fight. 50,000 SOLS? who ever owns one will be alone on the same pool with others that have the same hash power and spinning their wheels making no money on a coin that no one is buying as a result.
I think with this announcement we will see more devs moving their coins away from ASICs.
WORD OF ADVICE to BTCZ devs - don't wait to to make the change to ZHASH after ASICS drive up the difficulty or it will be an ugly transition. Just went through a week of hell with ETN making the algo change back to GPU and its still not quite right yet.... and has been very costly for the devs team to implement now.