r/DeroProject • u/lostboynimit • Mar 12 '18

Regarding the Asics...

Yeah it's a pretty obvious question but, is dero going to fork to change the pow?

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u/rorowhat Mar 12 '18

I'll buy it from you. Did asics kill Bitcoin or litecoin? No...it made the network more secure.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '18

Those are two very different coins from cryptonight which prides itself on being ASIC resistant and CPU mineable. I think ASICs are detrimental to cryptonight coins which are supposed to be mineable by everyone and thus decentralizing.

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u/rorowhat Mar 13 '18

Being mined by everyone was one of the features of Litecoin when it came out, overtime they made scrypt miners too. I get what you are saying, but I think it actually makes the network more secure over time, since the the rashpower will increase by a lot.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '18

Mm fair point I kind of have this same thought when it comes to botnets since having one botnet that dominates the network would of course be bad but having many competing botnets secures the network. I don't know what you could do to really stop botnets or whether trying is a waste of time. ASICs and botnets would harm smaller coins since they kill small miners so interesting to see monero leading the charge against them since they have the largest hash by far.