@leofidus Haha, my bad. :D
@langerhans Well, although ASICs now exist, it was the original conscious design choice during the development of the scrypt algorithm; whereas many algorithms were explicity designed to be efficiently implemented in specialised hardware to facilitate widespread adoption, implementation and ease of use, scrypt was specifically designed to be resistant towards this by requiring memory. The use of these algorithms as proof of work for cryptocurrencies has significantly changed the game, but that doesn't change the original reasons for the design choices -- and scrypt ASICs/SoCs are *significantly* less efficient compared to SHA/RSA/AES etc. hardware and will always remain so.