Let’s talk about ASIC mining

[ZC93]

@ZC93

My point is: if there is money to be made, those with money will put in the work to make it with ASIC’s, and leave us in the dust. Today, only Bitcoin make sense to do this, for but in the future, who knows.

So I said this back in Feb 2017

@nirvana

Please explain to me how you can build an ASIC to “leave us in the dust”. You say you are in the industry. Do you understand the difference between the SHA256 proof of work and Equihash?

and was criticized for it.

So while I saw this coming the tide is now tunning, Software engineers are getting a rapid education on what the hardware engineers can do. Both will always say they have the upper hand but the reality of the situation will be a stalemate. Software will drive algorithms to a point that ASIC’s are irrelevant. That is progress, that is innovation, and that is where this is all headed.