Well, the eth core devs all seem really hell bent on pushing on towards PoS and they’re clearly not going to do anything about the ASICS. My guess is that they want the ASICS to serve as nodes for the remainder of life. In a all core dev call there was an EIP that would disable or render ASICS pretty much useless but it was voted down in a real hurry.
I for one am looking into another currency because eth is really starting to have that bitcoiny feeling where only ASICS can render profit and centralization is inevitably going to occur.
The tone towards the miners in the eth cat herder calls was kind of demeaning and some of the devs (one in particular) was actually outwards hostile.
The devs want eth to go 2.0 and all the heavy hitters that have staked or are about to stake their eth want to be alone on top
Maybe I’m just in a bad mood and EIP1559 actually will contribute to higher eth value offsetting the decrease in miner rewards and maybe the pools will actually share some of the proposed MEV with the rest of the pool.
Either way… keep your eyes open and start thinking of where to move your hashpower.