Again, they poked around in an embedded linux image. There was zero investigation if the ASICs even have firmware, let alone modifying it. > I would just say y

Again, they poked around in an embedded linux image. There was zero investigation if the ASICs even have firmware, let alone modifying it. > I would just say you’re late to this one. Like, you would have had an argument in 2012 when there actually was a chance to frame the lingo in the crypto space, but in 2022 for an article from 2019? No. I mean, ok? If you're writing for a uninformed subset that uses words wrong, and you deliberately use their incorrect terminology, that's kind of worse. I can guarantee that no one who actually works on making the antminer/whatever ASICs calls the entire box "an ASIC". Writing for a lay audience does not mean deliberately misusing terms. Meanwhile, the rest of the world uses ASIC to mean Application-Specific Integrated Circuit. Because thats literally what the acronym means.