To buy or not to buy ASICs for Grin, a calmed and unbiased discussion

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@tomas

I can’t trust the dev team.

The Developers of Grin may have been some of the most active in the community when it comes to making sure miners and sellers can transact & mine, but do so with ease, just look through the forum.

@tomas

And specially now that Grin is phasing out GPU mining, I can’t trust the dev team. And announcing it a month before ASICs begin to show up, that’s just really poor taste.

@tromp

I hereby propose to accept Pull Request https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/pull/2714
which preserves the planned phase out of C31 but puts all later phase outs, of C32 and beyond, on hold, and to replace the term “foreseeable future” in our primary PoW commitment at https://forum.grin.mw/t/cuckatoo31-im-mutability by the more specific term “next 18 months”.

[20190625 UPDATE] The proposal was accepted in today’s dev meeting.

(C31) & (C32) were the ASIC targeted PoW’s and C32 wasn’t feasible. Gpu mining is still here for the next 1 year & 4 months