That’s the tradeoff of sticking to Satoshi’s original vision, & making mining more accessible to regular people.
Truth.
And Bitcoin was also small enough for a govt to 51% overnight, until about 2014.
Monero is in a similar situation now to BTC in 2013.
Longer term, ASIC-dependence puts the BTC ecosystem at the mercy of whoever controls the foundries that make the ASICs, or the ports through which they reach low cost of energy locations.
To throttle Monero the same way would require throttling general-purpose computing hardware availability. And that would cause economic self-harm on a massive scale for China, its not happening.
And Bitcoin was also small enough for a govt to 51% overnight, until about 2014.
Monero is in a similar situation now to BTC in 2013.
Longer term, ASIC-dependence puts the BTC ecosystem at the mercy of whoever controls the foundries that make the ASICs, or the ports through which they reach low cost of energy locations.
To throttle Monero the same way would require throttling general-purpose computing hardware availability. And that would cause economic self-harm on a massive scale for China, its not happening.
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