57% choose hard fork
That was the number of polls in a poll conducted by Vlad Zamfir, another developer of the Ethereum Foundation on Twitter on March 28.
Opinion polls have sparked rumors that the ASIC maker in China - Bitmain is about to ship the first ASIC tuner compatible with the Ethash algorithm. Ethash is the proof of workflow (PoW) algorithm used by Ethereum and many other altcoins.
#Vitalik Buterin's White Paper Ethereum shows that the protocols have and will have twice as strong resistance to concentrated digging.#
First, the algorithm requires the digger to return a hash for the data that was randomly selected from the transactions in the previous block. Since Ethereal may include any computing method, an ASE Ethereal Digger will essentially be an ASIC for overall computation, ie a better CPU.
The second defense is to poison the well. Vitalik describes it as the optimal solution for human adaptation rather than technical solution. If a certain computing operation becomes common, conventional machines can provide a large number of Blockchain contracts specifically designed to block certain ASIC machines.
#Bitmain giants!
Ethereal's unofficial poll related to the hard fork is scheduled to take place after Monero rejected the hashpower focus last month. Monero's leader, Riccardo Spagni has warned that Monero's protocols will be changed every six months to prevent ASIC's exclusive diggers. According to some commentators, the rumors of deploying ASIC tuners compatible with the Ethash algorithm have affected the Ethereum market.