Let’s talk about ASIC mining

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@boxalex

Any chance when you reply that you make it in 1 or 2 posts? It was some sort of hazzle to go through all these splitted answer posts you made one after one, not even talking about the caps which are a pain for every normal reader… Just some suggestions to have a better forum and conversation.

If there is a rule that states I must keep it to 1 or 2 replies, please link me to it. If not and it’s a hassle to you to respond, then why bother?

[Moderator edit by @daira: there is no rule, because such a rule would be difficult to formulate without false positives. However, many replies saying essentially the same thing are not productive and don’t add to the discussion. Also, emphasized text (using asterisks for the markup) is easier to read than caps.]

Here’s the main reason for my continued discussion of this here. Because Zooko CONTINUES to speak the same thing. WHY? Because there is a CONFLICT of interest.

@zooko

…as time goes by the amount of support for an ASIC-Friendly Zcash blockchain does grow

Well, you currently have approximately 90% in favor of GPU’s and you appear to be standing up for the 8% who will NEVER grow to as high as GPU’s and the 2% who are undecided or don’t care.

WHY?

@zooko

Bottom-line: I guess my current stance is that people are mistaken when they think the hashpower of miners influences outcomes of such a governance question. But they are actually right in a way, because miners have an economic incentive and economic incentives do influence such decisions.

Do you not have an ECONOMIC INCENTIVE (Conflict of interest) with the potential for DOUBLE the Developer Fees?

The appearance of this isn’t good, Zooko. It’s just not, sir. YOUR OWN ECONOMIC INTEREST ARE ALSO AT PLAY HERE AREN"T THEY? Be honest now…

Your OWN economic interest is threatening those who have already invested tremendously for this project. I would have bought VEGA’s instead of NVIDIA’s to mine Monero instead of ZEC if I had known ZCash would not hold true to there declaration for ASIC-Resistance to the community. I believe MANY other GPU miners here would say the same.