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I kinda assumed Bitcoin, since that's where most (almost all?) of the computation is happening. And if Ethereum gets any significant traction, the ASICs will c

I kinda assumed Bitcoin, since that's where most (almost all?) of the computation is happening. And if Ethereum gets any significant traction, the ASICs will come. That's pretty much inevitable. Heck, I bet ASIC would be worth the investment even for Argon2d hashes —even though that one was designed for modern stock hardware.

freeflight 9y ago
> And if Ethereum gets any significant traction You mean like a $30 billion market cap? [0] Afaik not all blockchain implementations profit from ASIC hardware, some even actively discourage ASCI use by making ASCI hardware use not efficient, like Monero [1], could be that Ethererum does something similar. [0] https://cryptocoincharts.info/coins/info https://cryptocoincharts.info/coins/info [1] https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/47/is-monero-amenable-to-asic-mining https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/47/is-monero-amen...