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There is an appearance of fragmentation. If you look at the order from the supply chain it would lead you to believe this is not the case. It's not going to be
by mrits 6y ago
There is an appearance of fragmentation. If you look at the order from the supply chain it would lead you to believe this is not the case. It's not going to be even be easy for anyone in retail to get an ASIC miner for the foreseeable future.
- 3np 6y agoHardware manufacturing for ASICs is indeed mainly from Bitmain and a few others - how does that matter here?
- 3np 6y ago(Too late to edit, but to get the point home): Would you argue that non-blockchain computing is centralized just from the fact that Intel and TSMC arguable control the CPU manufacturing?
- mrits 6y agoBitmain gives preferential treatment to certain vendors. This is problematic with a massive supply shortage. It makes it worst when the hardware that already exists starts to become worthless.