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Maybe wiping out gpu mining profits, but adoption? I don't think so. If/when crypto truly hits mainstream adaption, the users will have a cursory idea of how it works and probably won't even understand mining. Stability, usefulness, and ease of use is what will drive adoption. Right now buying crypto is extremely complicated, hard to spend, and there is not much to spend it on. Its going to have to be just as easy as venmo and debit cards. And sadly I think it will require a few centralized 3rd parties to process transactions (like visa, mc, ac) for it to really take off.
I think you will find that most developers are not money people. They are trying to create something for long term prospects while not really caring about short term prices. Monero is probably the only coin that I can say actively works on thwarting ASICs AND has a mature, stable, project. These other coins that are using resources on forking algos don't even have a fully developed product.
There are a lot of gpus out there
rx550
rx560
rx570
rx580
rx460
rx470
rx480
vega 56
vega 64
gtx 1050
gtx 1050ti
gtx 1060
gtx 1070
gtx 1070ti
gtx 1080
gtx 1080ti
everyone of the above if purchased sept 1 2017 made a profit to roi fully by feb 1 2018 every fucking one.
now granted many people fucked up and blew or lost the profit but check the facts out I am correct.
find the sept 1 2017 price for those cards and do the math. that = millions of cards and millions of adapters and asic builders killed that off.
basically asic builders got so fucking hungry they ate their legs and crippled the industry by doing it.
So instead of a gpu kid happy to get a free gaming rig and a few bucks to buy more games you get a gaming kid that hates mining won't use crypto .
World wide x 3,000,000 maybe 5,000,000 turned off by the move.
Me I am flexible I have all gear cpu gpu fpga asics.
But I am a miner not a gaming kid.
I have worked with pc's before apple existed and back as far as 1974.
I can say they were mainframe back then not really pc's.
I always saw this as a power game not a gear game.
the reality is it
see-saws from
power king to
gear king to
power king
and on an on. Dealing the blow to gpu hobby and small miners kills adaption big time.