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's really sad to see. But tbh we just need to get the crypto part out of the way of the user so only the devs are left to deal with it (and maybe not even them) - like in web2. If a non technical person needed to deal with http, ssl, smtp and ftp all day long, most wouldn't understand anything either.