ForkLog and æternity have released a special project “Fighting ASIC: the present and the future of mining cryptocurrency”

The last few years between the blockchain developers and manufacturers of ASIC miners is a technological race. Developers seek to limit the profitability of ASIC in their systems, manufacturers – to make more efficient devices. In the new special project from BlockchainJournal and æternity “Struggle with ASIC: the present and the future of mining cryptocurrency” we told what was behind this struggle and what it would lead blockchain industry.

To get a picture of the opinions in the community, we turned to experts in the field of mining and equipment. Alex Petrov, Andrei the Great, John Tromp, Dmitry Zyablov and Matvey Sivoraksha helped us in preparing the material.

The special project “Fighting ASIC: the present and the future of mining cryptocurrency” is illustrated material on the impact of ASIC mining on the industry, the “arms race” between blockchain developers and mining equipment manufacturers.

You will learn what ASIC is and how they differ from other chips, how and why developers are trying to deal with ASIC mining, and also about how this struggle will end, if it ends at all.

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