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Just woke up while ago ... yesterday before sleep I was doing some MANET simulations on OPNET just for fun ... today I had crazy idea, I mean very crazy idea came to my mind .. what if "change the mining paradigm" and instead traditional mining it could be something like "time spend logged to bitcoin-radio network" as a reward variable.. but the network would not be the traditional internet, instead could be a infrastructure less type such as "A mobile ad hoc network" .. people could be reward for maintain a free network. Its also reminds how guys like Van Jacobson get pissed when face the reality that we already get wireless nodes and ambiguous connections everywhere but we just don't relay. We insist to pay a provider to get connected...
Anyways going back to sleep lite more.. after it going to read some papers like
Relay-by-Smartphone
http://www.it.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/innovation/en-index.htmlvideo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVC4RLWMBngThat look like the idea of 100% Proof-of-Stake :
End of the mining. You cannot talk about mining/pre-mining/hardware-miner, there is no such things.
Instead, every node on the network contribute equally to the security. It doesn't matter your hardware, any computer can be a node even a Raspberry Pi or maybe a phone. Because there is no incentive for centralization (contrary to Bitcoin and clones with mining pool), the network is truly decentralized. No 51% attack possible. You get rewarded proportionally to your coin-stake so everyone get the same % of return on interest.
The network is infinitely more energy sufficient and secure.
The only problem is that is goes against the "mining paradigm" and a lot of people cannot handle the change.