I think it would be helpful if we could all *chill* and focus on the solid engineering necessary to make Bitcoin succeed. p. On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Chun Wang <1240902@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: > > Whilst it would be nice if miners in China can carry on forever > regardless > > of their internet situation, nobody has any inherent "right" to mine if > they > > can't do the job - if miners in China can't get the trivial amounts of > > bandwidth required through their firewall and end up being outcompeted > then > > OK, too bad, we'll have to carry on without them. > > > > But I'm not sure why it should be a big deal. They can always run a node > on > > a server in Taiwan and connect the hardware to it via a VPN or so. > > Ignorant. You seem do not understand the current situation. We > suffered from orphans a lot when we started in 2013. It is now your > turn. If Western miners do not find a China-based VPN into China, or > if Western pools do not manage to improve their connectivity to China, > or run a node in China, it would be them to have higher orphans, not > us. Because we have 50%+. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >