Pretty sure Chatturga asked for things like what pool are they mining to? or anything that would offer some validity to the statement.
It's easy for anyone to go around claiming they have an x16r Asic and are mining with it. The problem is that x16R hasn't been profitable enough for long enough to justify sinking the cost into building an Asic. The only Asics that launched and were believed to be non-existent before had been developed during the boom.
So great that you're trying to spread information, but people aren't going to haphazardly fork the chain against a threat that can't be proven or even properly investigated. I can say I'm glad for that, because even if it was proven there was an asic down the road, reacting before investigating would do more harm than good. Who would trust in a project that panics at the first whisper of a rumor?
Yes because we would know exactly what pool they are mining too out of all the known and unknown pools. You dont believe when RVN pumped to 1000 Sats that it was not worth making an ASIC, as ASICs were supposed to be live before that pump. Its been stated that ASICs have been running since september, and if they ran during that pump and offloaded during the pump then it was definitely worth it.
X16R has been on whattomine top for a long time, and will continue for a while. So yes it is definitely worth mining on ASICs. It was never a question of is it possible, but it was a question of if its worth it, and with the recent pump if they implemented before it they could have made a majority of their initial costs back right away.
It is not a rumor, depending on who you count as reputable sources. There are high followed members that have confirmed ASICs for X16R, and even in Chinese Chats that talk about them and have not lied in the past.
Currently their strategy is 80% hashpower has to vote for ASIC fork, how would that be done? ASICs have huge gains over GPUs. If an ASIC was privately on the Network and it required that vote, then it would not be possible. If ASICs went public it wouldnt be viable either as people want the better equipment and will buy ASICs and counter the votes.
If your belief is that Public = real, and Private = Rumors then you should look at the history of many other coins in the past. They are not instantly released publicly, no they are mined privately until its not worth it, or 2nd gen equipment comes then they offload.