Quote from: pitt59 on May 30, 2018, 04:22:41 AM

i think its useless to fork, we fork now and bitmain just solves it again but the nxt time they break the algorithm they can decide not to sell. actually even with this z9 mini, if they decided not to sell would we know that there is an asic already for equihash, at 2k usd retail price lets see 80m usd and they can control zcash network hash already, bitmain made more than 1b last year so they didnt really need to sell this asic, they can just write off 80m usd this year and not sell 40k units which they can easily do(2kusd/unit x 40k units is only 80m thats peanuts for bitmain) and with that they would be at zcash total hashrate already, if you guys were looking at hashrate of zcash, 3weeks ago it was only around 400, today at this time its 500 so means bitmain has already made the asics and probably mining it already well they got 2weeks to do it before they ship

so lets go to scenario where we fork, so probably hash goes back down to 400, they just make a new asic and this time they decide not to sell and just keep quiet well they can just do the 51% attack and screw us all, im a gpu miner but looking at how things have turned out maybe we can adjust the code so that a pool or miner doesnt go above a certain hashrate if this is possible since our only concern is centralization but it already is a fact we cant run away from asic they solved scrypt, ethash, cryptonight, equihash most at start saying its memory heavy so no asic can mine it but now asics are here and with the recent 51% attacks actually looking at btc ltc dash these are the coins with asic but cant be attacked cause of very high net hash and there isnt enough power on nicehash to attack them, issue with decentralization i think isnt with asic, its people selling to nicehash that is the issue cause recent attacks already proved this

so you know i didnt buy the z9 mini which i am actually having second doubt why i didnt, change algo bitmain solves it again and they can decide not to sell so we all end up as losers, if its possible to include for example a limit a worker to a certain limit on hash and maybe even pools then maybe this solves the issue, max hash a worker can have on network 10k sols i dont know if this is even possible but running from asics is not sustainable anymore if bitmain sells a new asic i will probably have to buy 1 already, also an issue with centralization i think even if its gpu only we already have that issue, how does it feel since aug last year until now i dont see any vega cards here but see 1 guy post getting 500vega gpu last nov

We just need to change the PoW algorithm every 6 months. The ASIC company cannot make ASIC and profit in such short period.

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