An even bigger concern is the fact that miners will create new
mining hardware and
mining software which circumvent newer
ASIC - resistant algorithms, making the centralization of
mining possible again and making the
efforts put forth by cryptocurrency project teams essentially all for naught.
Immediately after Ethereum's co-founder, Vitalik Buterin proposed the introduction of the hard fork on the coin's supply at approximately 120 million, Piper Merriam, a developer advocated that the hard fork should be introduced to demonstrate an
effort to resist
ASIC based
mining.