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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 - -- http://abis.io ~ "a protocol concept to enable decentralization and expansion of a giving economy, and a new social good" https://keybase.io/odinn -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVe8gvAAoJEGxwq/inSG8CcykH/0d+WuPnzFWooCRJR+FwaI4w Ad0z5GSLfYKGnmMMbbqkLsIA2GsfRAvivrsfZYd4slF5C7HEDGa3J/NC72U46dk6 qVm07UNBO3V+loLJtStIQQkg3tVGWjXeiySf4E4b8wlaZiBMS9WW0sAOWUJiGMDQ jKNRpjXobkQGd8C+VJXDpgtmiY60bS4l6j7bbYv+mU6LxhLwCVCqjRJSEN08BH4E AOwJg1qlORHPnrepfeJrB6TVxeHuLjCjWodXQ0jHbNchVQw7zc81gKrD40BJTzyO TTtGPu3JUkcHtx7MVLbIdYNVElqxMS5Li+j9j3h+m9eGSaNgOOl3+8VGJexKPKI= =j5Fh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
