no coin can start with ASICs, but ASIC mining ultimately creates stability and makes it harder, not easier, for someone to rapidly attain 51% of the network, at least if you can create an ecosystem where you by far outnumber other users of the ASIC.
We have started with scrypt, and almost all miners are smaller ASICs, the network is stable.
Sorry, what I should have said was, no coin can create a new PoW funciton and start with a network that ASIC mines it.
I read what you say, and as I said, I don't think this is a
big deal. I'm not going to stop investing in XMR because of it.
But the fact of the matter is that BTC is in the enviable situation that there is no one bigger that it using the same mining hardware. You are not in that situation, and nor are we. [EDIT: And unless we change our PoW, we will never be in that enviable situation unless/until there are custom Cryptonight miners. And unless you change your PoW you will never be in that enviable situation unless LTC fails - or you grow bigger than it.]
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