Not saying we should but how to do it.
Yeah fork fork fork fork = pita
How about ideas and proposals ?
My newest idea is sell an OS with a license tied to your ip.
So lets say my ip is
01.234.567.89
I buy an os that allows me to mine zec and or other alogs Something like ethos does. It is unique has its own number say 123456789
So they are paired 01.234.567.89 with 123456789
And if I am doing zec
under 4000 sols = hobby miner so diff is x
4000 to 10000 sols = small miner so diff is 1.5x
10000 to 50000 sols = medium miner so diff is 3.0x
50000 to 250000 sols = large miner so diff is 9.0x
over 250,000 sols = unlimited miner so diff is 20.0x
It makes the attraction to asic's less since they have a higher difficulty.
No forks
gpus stay in the game
hobby mining is not lost.
Feel free to poke a hole at it but it seems like it could work.
Any insult to anyone I will delete.
So to asic only or gpu only people please be polite. As for FPGA proponents also be polite.
I do not like ASICs, but....if you do it this way, why would anyone buy anything but the weakest miner. Buying a 3K$ ASIC to mine at basically the same dificulty as a hobby miner makes no sense.
what do you think level the playing field means? It means making financial handicaps against asic and fpga to encourage a broadbase of mining.
If you looked at my math you would see that asics would not be fully pushed down to gpu levels and that asics would still be somewhat better.
Take the z9 300 watts 10000 sols cost 2.5k for the June one 33 sols a watt
take a 2.5k 1080ti rig about 2000 sols at 500 watts or 4 sols a watt
So the z9 is 8x better my numbers would make the diff for the asic 2x or 3x which means the asic is better but not that much better.
Actually the diff increase could slide but the idea is to keep mining diverse.
Since the al-gore-rythm would allow an asic you don't worry about getting forked into a brick the price you pay to not brick is less efficiency.
I am looking create a handicap concept.
I used to bowl a lot we had handicap rules that made a team of say 4 guys that bowled 200 each spot points to a team of 4 guys that bowled 150 each.
so 800 vs 600 the low bowlers would be crushed. the league I was in used 80% handicap so the 200 better was x 80% or 160 point added to the lessor bowlers so the better bowlers did get some of the benefit of being better.
in my idea asics get some of the benefit of being better
asics also don't get bricked by forks
but gpus even cpus still can mine somewhat.
Look for me I have an unbeatable power deal up to 20k-watts I will always earn money unless the gear breaks.
But to want to kill off millions of small gpu miners is moron stupid.
and to say the gpu guy or cpu guy should buy an asic is not reasonable as many can not access them.
There simply has to be a way of creating a flatter system.
But why?
Here is why ? the bowling alleys will not be filled with leagues without handicapped concepts for play. There are only so many 200 average bowlers.
Same for mining there are only so many of us that can swing a power deal with no worries about sound or equipment delivery.
My idea does not need to be for all coins. Just some.
There are no handicap bowling leagues with all bowlers averaging 200 plus.
You could have unrestricted coins btc ltc whatever.
tie the ip may not be needed.
a blankCoinOs that mines blank coin
give it an identifier.
give it levels
level1 0 - 4000 sols
level2 4000 - 10000 sols
level3 10000 - 50000 sols
level4 50000 - 250000 sols
level5 250000 - 1000000 sols
you only need 10 coins and algos like this it would kind of keep gpus only on them but it would keep gpus.
level6 1000000 sols and up
