I thought the main point f Zcash was the privacy aspect. For those who already had a GPU, you lose nothing to ASICS. You didn’t buy the card to mine crypto, because you already had the card. Actually, you took the mining away from CPUs. So, either find other coins to mine or your cards are still good for what you bought them for originally. Stop whining about decentralization, and that only a couple companies produce all the ASICs. Look at AMD and Nvidia. They are just as centralized.
Others like me who bought cards in order to mine, we took a risk. Some people got in at the right time, some didn’t. Some made a lot of money and some lost a lot. Although this algo was supposed to be ASIC resistant, it’s not, so deal with it. Saying that ASICs are not decentralized, but GPUs aren’t is just bull. Especially given the fact that Bitmain has restricted the Z9 to 1 per person. Someone with enough money to buy an ASIC farm can certainly buy a GPU farm. And, unless you are running a full-node, and solo mining, you are not contributing to the decentralization and are only in it for the money - so stop parading around like a bunch of saints. Remember, you did the same to CPUs.
I, for one, made enough money from mining over the last 8 months to completely pay for my cards. I saw the Z9 notice, so I bought one and sold my 4 1080Tis in a few hours, on eBay, for more than I bought them for. I also bought a Scrypt miner and have money left over. I’m happy because I bought them from the proceeds, so it really cost me nothing. Do I care about decentralization? Sure, but do I care that you haven’t made your money back yet, so you want to fight ASICS? Not really. If I hadn’t sold my GPUs I wouldn’t be whining about it, I would just go mine another coin, and if all the Equihash coins fork, then I guess I bought a $2k Bitmain souvenir that I’ll chalk up to a bad investment. You can support a coin in other ways, like buying coins and running a full node, if you’re that benevolent.
Take ownership of your decisions, and stop blaming the developers for not doing what you want them to, just because you try to shout them down doesn’t make you right - it is their coin to do what they want with it.
Anyways, I think the best way to decentralized all cryptocurrencies is to do away with centralized pools, and have something like p2pool for all of them. Why is nobody addressing the issue of pools? Because, unless your mining at a very small pool, you really are the problem, and your words are empty.
