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.

Interesting, which would you prefer for an asset like Bitcoin though?

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I think the bitcoin devs should probably keep PoW and the 21m limit for now, but maintain a fork that switches to some kind of hybrid PoS that keeps enough PoW so that PoW fans still feel like it's Backed By Thermodynamics™ but where PoS provides most of the security, so they can switch to it once there's a problem