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by loup-vaillant 3141 days ago
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.

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> 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

[1] https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/47/is-monero-amen...