So you want to create another big centralized player? Who's infantile now...
You do realize Bitmain is making the miners/chips? Maybe stop using those chips is the only way to decentralize.
Maybe switching over to mass produced cpu's is the answer...

True, people have been talking about a PoW change. It would probably be the best thing to happen and the quicker, the better.
Most importantly how do you create a PoW that is practically unable to centralize?
Going to cpu mining with a variable PoW every few blocks, so asics are out of the picture?
And how do you transition, the change in PoW makes 'difficulty-adjustment' useless.
So are we going to get a few lucky hours/minutes where blocks are 'instamined', or the opposite, one week/month of a slow network. (With lightning functional, this might not be a huge problem).

Lombrozo should follow through and ignore Wu's lies, I have no idea how he could accomplish it though.
Lomborzo could even 'kickstart/donate' to get funding and have enough within the hour.
Everyone is tired of Bitmain.

The altcoin mining market is growing:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/asus-unveils-cryptocurrency-mining-motherboard-that-supports-19-gpus/

If only intel/amd/nvidia start making asic miners...finally some competition.

Quite the rollercoaster:

Since the inception of bitcoin, whenever people asked, "So, how many transactions does bitcoin do per second?".
We all had to answer a number that was embarrassingly low, theoretically 7, but more like 3-4 TPS.

With segwit enabled, bitcoin is finally - ready for the world -.
As much of a cliche that may sound, we went from 7 TPS to potentially unlimited TPS, all safe and sound.
This means it's really no 'joke' anymore. That's what I mean by historic, the activating of segwit might be known as THE enabler for bitcoin.
Or like some other people call it, the netscape navigator moment for bitcoin.

On the horizon is rootstock, smart contracts linked to the bitcoin chain. What is ETH going to do?

Oh and no newbie, been here since 2013. Forgot my password and recovery didn't work.

Tonight might be more of a historic moment then we all realize.

Economic majority? Please define this.
Greatest say in the future direction of bitcoin? Bitcoin isn't a democracy.

I hope you have your eggs in both baskets because this will be a harsh lesson to learn for many.
You are about to trust a small group of individuals who already have a very very bad track record.
And once you give trust away, you'll never get it back.

Maybe wirex? Ordered some physical visa cards from them recently, but haven't received them yet. They have a 2k limit unverified IIRC.

80k transactions in the mempool. Let's see if that number goes to 200k.

And that's why one shouldn't be worried about coming forks.
A couple of companies trying to hijack bitcoin? Please...
Trust is the name of the game.

countdown @ segwit.party

You should talk to shroomskit.

NLC where art thou.

Damn it feels good to be a hodler.