From: odinn <odinn.cyberguerrilla@riseup•net>
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposed alternatives to the 20MB step
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 23:05:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <557BC82F.1010901@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP1TgAxd70UnnTac8-h2huUxCJD3VsqxWdgv2mpwbU_mkQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 06/02/2015 04:03 AM, Mike Hearn wrote:
(...)
>
> If you really believe that decentralisation is, itself, the end,
> then why not go use an "ASIC resistant" alt coin with no SPV or web
> wallets which resembles Bitcoin at the end of 2009? That'd be a
> whole lot more decentralised than what you have now.
>
> The *percentage* of the community that mines is totally
> irrelevant, it's the absolute number of (independent) people that
> matters.
>
>
> So usage does matter, then? You'd rather have a coin that has
> power concentrated in a far smaller elite, proportionally, but has
> overall more usage? If there are say, 5000 full nodes today, and in
> ten years there are 6000, and they all run in vast datacenters and
> are owned by large companies, you'll feel like Bitcoin is more
> decentralised than ever? (n.b. I do not think this situation will
> ever happen, it's just an example).
>
Something you said about "power concentrated," made me think I should
post this here:
https://twitter.com/adam3us/status/608920099609817088
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-13 6:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-01 12:45 Jérôme Legoupil
2015-06-01 13:00 ` Adam Back
2015-06-01 13:37 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-06-01 15:55 ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-01 16:41 ` Jameson Lopp
2015-06-02 0:09 ` Eric Voskuil
2015-06-02 11:03 ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-02 16:18 ` Eric Voskuil
2015-06-13 6:05 ` odinn [this message]
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