How many of you have already purchased an ASIC or are planning to?

already bought the asic, friends already bought asic.
currently running 36 cards at 13kSol/s at ~3.6Kw/H

asic miner has higher incentive to be a good actor than GPU miner because any 51% attack perpetrated on even a single coin of asic algo will cause algo switch on all coins of that algo, instantly making the ASIC mashines worthless.

gpu miners can attak with impunities becaus gpu can be just shifted to new algo no problem. so their hardware investment is secure from loss because of flexibility.

Also, most gpu miners are already causing >51% pools to exist because they are trying to reduce their variance, most coins are already having suprnova or another large pool carrying 51% or more of their nethash, arguing that gpu based decentralization makes more secure is a fallacy

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