A regular reminder that this is still the level of discourse in many parts of crypto discussion.

Literally pattern matching "ASIC" -> "so they're doing proof of work!" without even understanding that application-specific integrated circuits can be designed for multiple, err... applications.

It used to be better than this & it will continue to get worse. 

As more participants enter average knowledge decreases. 

Not much one can do about it but try to block out the noise & speak to those who are interested in learning.