ASICs and machine guns have a lot of similarities, and each of them has been responsible for destroying a beautiful dream. Just as the original intention of the 2nd amendment was the decentralization of power, the dream of Bitcoin was to decentralize monetary control. And for the Founding Fathers, the crappy guns of the late 1700s seemed like an ideal way to decentralize. These crappy guns were widely distributed among the people. They were terrible at mowing down groups of people. And very few gun owners had more than one or two.