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Mining difficulty is adjusted by the network to keep things nice and smooth. If the ASICs all came online at once and managed to really, massively increase the hashing ability for a while then it might do something. But most likely whoever holds the ASICs wants to avoid this situation, and ramp up in such a way that nothing is disrupted. That way they can quietly corner a good percentage of the mining without screwing the price.



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