It is a known thing this one, that Bitmain only cares about their finances and that is why I like developers like the ones who have developed Monero, they care about decentralisation while Bitmain doesn't and that is a fact.
I think Bitmain has quit going after Monero after they changed their algorithm once, they can do again , so I doubt Bitmain will have time to lose chasing the new cryptonight algorithm.
They definitely won't be going after XMR again. XMR's changed their algo already, people have seen it, and there's not going to be a lot of people willing to take the risk of trying to mine XMR with ASICs again when the response will probably just be another algorithm change to flush out the ASICs on the network. Bitmain's likely going for other algorithms now or improving on current miner designs to increase efficiency.
Indeed. Just to be clear, XMR forked once already, bricking the asics mentioned in this thread (or forcing them to mine ETN, which initially forked with XMR, then reverted), and is due to fork again in 8 days time.
So XMR is somewhat of a moving target, which will put off a lot of asic folks, hopefully permanently. All power to em, frankly.
