Recently Bitmain put their Antminer Z9 Mini Equihash miner up for sale. Think what you will, as an early ZCash advocate and supporter, here is my take on it.

Links:
https://blog.z.cash/why-equihash/

https://github.com/zcash/zcash/issues/1211

https://shop.bitmain.com/product/detail?pid=00020180503154806494uGcSyiu806FD

https://forum.z.cash/t/let-s-talk-about-asic-mining/27353/775

https://github.com/amiller/Elections/commit/d0820571a359f682e519d89375dc162570361cd2

https://twitter.com/zooko/status/981484601930539008

https://twitter.com/CryptominedCom/status/981395587852627969

https://twitter.com/mineZcash/status/981167668316131328

https://forum.z.cash/t/let-s-talk-about-asic-mining/27353/89?u=cryptomined

https://twitter.com/CryptominedCom/status/979820596623155202

https://forum.z.cash/t/novel-asic-for-mining-zcash/12599/12?u=cryptomined

https://cointelegraph.com/news/south-korea-ends-anonymous-cryptocurrency-trading-exchanges-to-finally-add-new-users

https://cointelegraph.com/news/japanese-regulators-discussed-restricting-trade-of-privacy-focused-altcoins-report-says