With the recent 51% attacks on Bitcoin Gold and ZenCash earlier today, I think there is a large amount of these miners already out there.
The Zencash attack was at least 58MH/s so that would be about 100,000 of the latest Nvidia GPUs or about ~ 1450 of these non-mini ASICs.
Most likely with these attacks going on, many of these Equihash coins will have no choice but to fork.
Suppose it's only a coincidence these 51% attacks occur on coins that:
#1: Declared they will fork away from ASIC's.
#2: All within a short time after CONFIRMING they will fork away from ASIC's.
#3: BITMAIN has a "motive" to implement a 51% attack based on their declaration they will fork.
#4: The fact that BITMAIN revealed they have a Z9 (
not "mini") proves it would be VERY easy to implement a 51% attack. Which would ALSO prove they have mined with them for quite some time.
Once these coins are forked, we'll see BITMAIN LIED to Zooko about not private mining AND about not having a larger Equihash rig that's been mining for a LONG time once everyone notes how much the network hash rate drops. Especially, if ZEC actually forks.
I've known BITMAIN is only out for themselves and doesn't give a damn about the crypto community. The only explanation for people supporting BITMAIN is:
#1: Those people are only in it for themselves as well and could care less about decentralization in all its forms.
#2: Their ignorant from lack of experience with BITMAIN and simply brainwashed into believing the BITMAIN illusion.
Message for those of you who ordered Z9 mini's to be delivered in August/September: I'm sure BITMAIN is enjoying breaking in your Z9 mini's before shipping them off to you. They already have your non-refundable payment. So, why should they care? If you wanted a refund and they refuse to give it to you, it only shows they don't give a damn about you and only for themselves.
Bitmain's
Pre-Mining Policy is a Gold Mine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNg5yxlvvngIf one does simple math using the ZEC addresses provided in that video, they would easily determine BITMAIN has been private/secret mining with Z9's (
not "mini") for a very long time.
Those of you who ordered the August/September shipments of Z9 mini from BITMAIN are simply
trying to give me a hard time as you stress out over these coming forks that could potentially ruin your ROI. I'm looking forward to these forks
before September.