Why does Kaspa's ASIC mining make the network harder to attack?

ASICs make attacking the Kaspa network extremely costly because an attacker would permanently destroy their own hardware in the process. An ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) is a chip built to run exactly one mining algorithm — it cannot be repurposed to mine a different coin or used for general computing after the attack ends. A GPU, by contrast, can be redeployed to other tasks once the attack is over, so the attacker loses very little long-term. Because anyone who tries to overwhelm Kaspa's network with ASICs is essentially setting their capital on fire with no way to recover it, the economic incentive to attack is far lower than on GPU-mineable networks.