Comments on: ASIC resistance explained – What does it mean for a coin to be ASIC resistant? https://coinguides.org/asic-resistance-explained/ Sat, 27 Mar 2021 03:40:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Piccolo https://coinguides.org/asic-resistance-explained/#comment-6823 Tue, 04 Jun 2019 17:00:49 +0000 http://coinguides.org/?p=1465#comment-6823 Thank you very much, a very useful article for dummies like me.

]]> By: Pococurante https://coinguides.org/asic-resistance-explained/#comment-1277 Tue, 07 Aug 2018 23:04:40 +0000 http://coinguides.org/?p=1465#comment-1277 Bitmain’s E3 ASIC costs 1270 USD. Building one’s own GPU rig costs nearly twice that for the same number of GPUs.

Looking just at price it seems the average hobbyist can better afford the Bitmain device.

So much for decentralization as the motivator here…

]]> By: Ginel https://coinguides.org/asic-resistance-explained/#comment-900 Sat, 23 Jun 2018 02:17:33 +0000 http://coinguides.org/?p=1465#comment-900 Great explanation, about the asic-resistant coins, I think they are most bet, because this type of coin keeps the same difficulty in the future just updating the hashing algorithm, as Webchain Network this is a new asic-resistant cryptocurrency based on a customized version of Cryptonight hashing algorithm, this is a project thinking in their miners, so Webchain Network (WEB) do not have an initial coin offering, everyone has to mine for obtained WEB.

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