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November 24, 2018, 01:32:09 AM |
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Why is everyone avoiding this problem? Everyone should be concerned about this. - Companies are required to apply for a permit to make ASIC
- The state can withdraw those permits
- Less than 5 companies make ASIC
- Those companies can work together to control all Proof of Work ASIC mining
Its our time to explore more decentralized and greener mining alternatives.
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November 24, 2018, 06:27:28 AM |
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- I don't know where you live but anywhere in the world that I can think of, when you want to start a business/company and produce and sell stuff to people you need to apply for some sort of "permit" or "license" to run your business. this has nothing to do with bitcoin mining
- then if your company starts scamming people, your "permit" can be revoked and you have to answer for your crimes in a court of law. unless of course you live in a lawless country! again this has nothing to do with bitcoin mining
- number of companies producing hardware doesn't make mining centralized!
- the companies are producing hardware not controlling POW. if they want they can (like anybody else) start a farm, spend money and electricity and pay employees,.... to have hashing power and that is how PoW works, it doesn't give any advantage to the producers compared to others.
Its our time to explore more decentralized and greener mining alternatives.
and we are all ears for real suggestions not imagination. and we need to see actual proof of the suggestion working not some hype about some altcoin that uses a different method without any tests to prove its superiority.
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November 24, 2018, 06:35:04 AM |
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Asics miners made mining centralised. Some cryptocurrencies adopted asics resistant algorithm but as far as I know they aren't that famous. The problem for bitcoin is that asics are expensive and for more profits you have to own several ones which require a huge investment which isn't possible for everyone.
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November 24, 2018, 06:57:49 AM |
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Some cryptocurrencies adopted asics resistant algorithm
there is no such thing as ASIC-resistant. that term is like a buzzword that some altcoins started back in the days only to advertise themselves as a coin that can always be mined with GPUs. but the fact is they changed the algorithm so that bitcoin ASICs can not be used for them. in other words the correct term is BTC-ASIC-resistant. but nothing is stopping a company from creating a new ASIC that can mine them.
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November 24, 2018, 07:17:13 AM |
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Some cryptocurrencies adopted asics resistant algorithm
there is no such thing as ASIC-resistant. that term is like a buzzword that some altcoins started back in the days only to advertise themselves as a coin that can always be mined with GPUs. but the fact is they changed the algorithm so that bitcoin ASICs can not be used for them. in other words the correct term is BTC-ASIC-resistant. but nothing is stopping a company from creating a new ASIC that can mine them. you have very little knowledge about modern pow algos
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November 27, 2018, 06:24:25 AM |
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you have very little knowledge about modern pow algos
Expand a little bit your idea so everyone gets more knowledge. Some cryptocurrencies adopted asics resistant algorithm
but the fact is they changed the algorithm so that bitcoin ASICs can not be used for them. in other words the correct term is BTC-ASIC-resistant. but nothing is stopping a company from creating a new ASIC that can mine them. I am less active than before in the altcoins sections and news but as far as I know all asics are made to mine bitcoin in the first place?
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November 27, 2018, 07:44:19 AM |
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Decentralization is a very vague subject and when you consider the concentration of mining rigs and bitcoin supply in very few hands, it debates the true decentralization of bitcoin.
No algorithm can be completely fool proof and perfect, but POW goes a long we in diversifying control to the entire ecosystem.
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November 27, 2018, 07:50:44 AM Last edit: November 27, 2018, 08:18:05 AM by franky1 |
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computers are centralised
there is only: intel AMD
ahhhh kill all computers (^note sarcasm^)
mining is not centralised because although some reddit/twitter PR campaign screams "china51%".. thats fake news even 'antpool' which suggest to have 12.8% at time of post. is actually: half a dozen stratums in half a dozen countries with half a dozen different coin reward addresses
some of these separate entities tagged as "antpool" do different things, such as: some do empty block mining some do rewards to bech32(bc1q segwit) addresses and add segwit transactions from mempool some just handle legacy.
all revealing that "antpool" is diverse in power/decisions/location things like slushpool is tagged under the "china51%" yet they are managed in thailand and world wide stratum for asics anywhere F2pool is world wide gateway for asics anywhere btc.com has stratums and farms in many locations
so.. dont take reddit/twitter screams too seriously unless you background check/find the source stats. in short DYOR(do your own research)
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November 27, 2018, 08:25:41 AM |
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Some cryptocurrencies adopted asics resistant algorithm
but the fact is they changed the algorithm so that bitcoin ASICs can not be used for them. in other words the correct term is BTC-ASIC-resistant. but nothing is stopping a company from creating a new ASIC that can mine them. I am less active than before in the altcoins sections and news but as far as I know all asics are made to mine bitcoin in the first place? ASIC is not even about mining. it is basically an electronic circuit that is designed for a specific use. a bitcoin miner is a type of ASIC which is short for Application-Specific Integrated Circuit. but ASICs have other usages too. in crypto space so far since bitcoin has been the most solid Proof of Work cryptocurrency that is worth mining the focus of ASICs have bee on mining bitcoin's PoW. but there are other ASICs too. for example the scrypt mining ASIC that is used for mining litecoin (called Antminer L3) and recently Ethereum ASIC miner (Antminer E3)
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November 27, 2018, 10:04:32 AM |
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Why is everyone avoiding this problem? Everyone should be concerned about this. - Companies are required to apply for a permit to make ASIC
- The state can withdraw those permits
- Less than 5 companies make ASIC
- Those companies can work together to control all Proof of Work ASIC mining
Its our time to explore more decentralized and greener mining alternatives.centralize is not coincident. not everyone can afford expensive ASIC mining rig. to reduce cost of operation, some company provide pool mining. its natural for the lawful state to issue permits to company. Any company is making profit of any service is require to report their operation, else it would be illegal.
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November 27, 2018, 11:35:37 AM |
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you really need to study the facts and stop believing everything you found on the web, especially such conspiracy theories that presents only fallacies,, no logic.
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November 27, 2018, 04:22:13 PM |
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centralize is not coincident. not everyone can afford expensive ASIC mining rig. to reduce cost of operation, some company provide pool mining.
that is not called centralized at all to be coincidence or not. it is done by choice and under different circumstances so it is not centralization. centralization of mining would be if someone (the centralized authority) could prevent you from mining bitcoin which is not true so it is decentralized.
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November 27, 2018, 04:26:32 PM |
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Not the actual btc mining is centralised but the business establishment if you have a huge mining farm cost a million dollar of course you have comply the proper paper inorder to operate just like a normal business procedure.
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November 27, 2018, 04:43:38 PM |
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Why is everyone avoiding this problem? Everyone should be concerned about this.
Its our time to explore more decentralized and greener mining alternatives.
I would be more than happy to hear about the green options that you are talking about. I am not that involved in the crypto industry, but if BTC that was the first is centralised, what more should be looking for? The system of the others, outcomes is alternative of the BTC system, so where should we look for that greener option? What is the green option in crypto industry anyway?
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November 27, 2018, 06:37:22 PM |
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[color="green"]greener mining alternatives.[/color][/b]
at a recent hashrate of 36exa, thats: 36,000,000 terrahash 36,000,000,000,000 megahash if we stuck with PC (cpu) mining that would be trillions of PC's needed. imagine a PC with a 500w Power supply each but with asics thats only 1.28million ASICS using near-off 3 PC power supplies so the equivelent of just ~4mill PC's worth of power 4mill vs trillions... which is greener? i know some foolish people think signing blocks using PoS is greener. but they have no cost/risk in signing. it doesnt cost a penny to sign a block. meaning there is no cost for people to pool up 'stake' and syndicate themselves into controlling block creation which is a SECURITY RISK by having a cost to mine prevents outsiders from attack and also makes bitcoin have a viable bottomline value because it actually costs funds to mine it. thus those mining it will not sell at a loss and wont sell it down to a penny altcoins using PoS have no underlying cost of production and the price is pure speculation
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November 27, 2018, 08:45:07 PM |
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i know some foolish people think signing blocks using PoS is greener. but they have no cost/risk in signing. it doesnt cost a penny to sign a block. meaning there is no cost for people to pool up 'stake' and syndicate themselves into controlling block creation which is a SECURITY RISK
by having a cost to mine prevents outsiders from attack and also makes bitcoin have a viable bottomline value because it actually costs funds to mine it. thus those mining it will not sell at a loss and wont sell it down to a penny
altcoins using PoS have no underlying cost of production and the price is pure speculation
Pure proof-of-stake is obviously problematic because it costs large stakers nothing to attack the network. What do you think about hybrid POW/POS protocols, where traditional mining is used as a check to ensure honest staking? I haven't actually researched it too deeply, but a couple miners have mentioned it to me in a positive light.
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November 27, 2018, 11:34:18 PM |
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I don’t think that Bitcoin mining is very centralized. Even major miners have a large share of the network, but not one miner has a critical advantage. I think it’s natural that small miners find it difficult to compete with major miners. This is called rivalry.
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December 03, 2018, 04:28:52 AM |
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[color="green"]greener mining alternatives.[/color][/b]
at a recent hashrate of 36exa, thats: 36,000,000 terrahash 36,000,000,000,000 megahash if we stuck with PC (cpu) mining that would be trillions of PC's needed. imagine a PC with a 500w Power supply each but with asics thats only 1.28million ASICS using near-off 3 PC power supplies so the equivelent of just ~4mill PC's worth of power 4mill vs trillions... which is greener? i know some foolish people think signing blocks using PoS is greener. but they have no cost/risk in signing. it doesnt cost a penny to sign a block. meaning there is no cost for people to pool up 'stake' and syndicate themselves into controlling block creation which is a SECURITY RISK by having a cost to mine prevents outsiders from attack and also makes bitcoin have a viable bottomline value because it actually costs funds to mine it. thus those mining it will not sell at a loss and wont sell it down to a penny altcoins using PoS have no underlying cost of production and the price is pure speculation We can agree in Proof of Stake as a bad idea. The greener alternative technology available to us is Proof of Capacity and Proof of Space and Time. Having that said, electricity isnt the only physical property we have available to secure the digital with the physical. The world has a huge capacity of unused disk space that can be accured to secure a cryptocurrency.
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December 03, 2018, 06:21:28 AM |
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I Agree 100% These are some of the reasons for believing that bitcoin it is centralized not only the mining per se
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