Quote from: greyman on January 17, 2014, 01:55:20 PM

To be honest, I don't quite get this anti-ASIC sentiment. I tried to mine LTC on my PC and it wasn't worth it, and there are even no scrypt ASICs yet. I think this "no ASIC so normal people with their own PCs can mine" philosophy works only in the early stages of the scrypt-coin, after the difficulty raises it isn't worth it, when you don't have free electricity.

Today, I would need at least one rig with 3 graphics cards to mine litecoins for example, but this thing would be noisy and consumes a lot of electricity, so I basically can't put it in my apartment. I would much prefer to be able to buy dedicated scrypt ASIC and mine with it. It will be more eco-friendly and will not be mis-using graphics cards.

To sum it up, I don't support this proposal, I want the scrypt-asics to be sold.

ASICs aren't available everywhere. You can buy a GPU pretty much anywhere on the planet but ASICs tend to only be available where they are made i.e. China and where there is a lot of demand i.e. Western countries. In other parts of the planet there isn't enough demand to justify shipping them there and importing stuff isn't something that ordinary people can do anyway - there are a lot of hoops that you have to jump through such as dealing with overzealous customs officers. Another problem with ASICs is that to buy them you need crypto. That rules out those places where buying crypto isn't easy (which is why you are looking at mining in the first place).

TLDR: GPUs are democratic, ASICs are elitist.