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This was a change meant to block ASIC mining and encourage GPU mining.

Whilst this is great for decentralization, I've read interesting arguments in favor of ASIC mining. People who buy ASICs are committed to a coin. This leads to a stable base of mining. Meanwhile, GPU miners tend to mine whatever is the most profitable at any given time. This leads to large fluctuations in mining rates.

The Ether switch to POS has some people worried, as it might free up a lot of GPU power, which might overwhelm other GPU based POW systems.

Then again, any argument regarding mining algorithms is filled by people who have biases to the tune of 100 000$ of hardware investments.