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One of the main reasons for Bitcoin was to fight against currency devaluation.

Bitcoin's privacy is solvable, that Monero has no network effect and therefore cannot protect against currency devaluation is not solvable.

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Rich Nost 1y ago

Does monero still change the mining algo to regularly account for asics?

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kidwarp 1y ago

If needed yes I believe

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ede3d957... 1y ago

No. Last time was 5 years ago.

There was a big discussion between going the ASIC way (SHA3) or ASIC resistance. And the conclusion was that RandomX needs to work because if it wouldn't have, constant forking wouldn't be a good way forward. In which case the project would have went with SHA3 which is probably the most easiest to build ASICS for.

Sounds confusing? No. It's wheing benefits and tradeoffs of totally different approaches. So far RandomX has a good track record of being able to keep ASICS out.