Begging Zooko for a fork is pure crony capitalism

Valid point. There could be others out there who taped out an ASIC, and strictly use them in house only. Expensive to do, but a possibility none the less.

Is it joke or something…Bitmain S9 is 2 year old and still no else sell better …for that 2 years Bitmain probably have much much much better but they dont have any reason to sell it 2 you

Competition is where anyone is open to compete. If there are no competitors it’s still a competition but there’s a current natural monopoly. Natural monopolies don’t last long and are the product of someone being very efficient. Nonetheless Bitmain does have competition, more and more every year but it’s funny you are worried about one player when you guys just buy from Nvidia.

By forcing GPU mining you are effectively creating a huge forced monopoly for Nvidia as a competitor need to first enter the GPU space and then, offer mining so the barrier of entry for a GPU miner manufacturer is huge.

No, Nvidia creates the chip and does sell their own reference versions. You are equating Nvidia to Bitmain, which is flattly untrue. You want an antminer, you HAVE to deal with Bitmain, if they let you. You want a 1080TI? What variety would you like? Zotac, EVGA, MSI, Manli (mining card), PNY?? You have more of a choice, which means competition on the price and availability is hands down more diverse than you will ever get from Bitmain.

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