A lot of this sounds like crypto influencer stuff.

There can only be one **_secure_** POW chain. The one with the highest hash rate is secure ; all others can and do suffer reorg attacks. This is because miners can mine any coin based on POW, and if you control enough hash power, you can rewrite some of a chain - that allows them to double spend. This happens all the time.... And it is theft. Only bitcoin is secure against theft.

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that's only true within a given PoW algorithm

No. Miners switch between algorithms automatically, as they pick the mos tprofitable coin to mine.

lol that's not how asics work

Why are we talking? You obviously don't know anything.

an application-specific integrated circuit is customized for a particular use, in this case a single PoW algorithm

You are wasting my time.

Absolutely nostr:nprofile1qqsykh4lg3nkfcesv3x5zc5jf2r2w0z3wvycewcqmv9xjzcfwqr2prsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7qgewaehxw309anhymm4wpeju6r6wfjrzdpe9e3k7mf0c4u979 ASIC stands for application specific integrated Circuit. It is a node with one job. Bitcoin runs on Secure Hash Algorithm 2 or SHA2. That's the algorithm specific to bitcoin, so an ASIC that runs on SHA2 will only solve problems on that network. Litecoin ASICS use the Scrypt algorithm so a Litecoin miner will not work on the bitcoin network. That said, DOGE also runs on Scrypt, so you can run a Scrypt ASIC on either the DOGE network or the Litecoin network, but not on the bitcoin network.

with the way DOGE is merge mined with LTC, I think Scrypt ASICs mine both chains simultaneously