{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub17ty4mumkv43w8wtt0xsz2jypck0gvw0j8xrcg6tpea25z2nh7meqf4qgyd","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub17ty4mumkv43w8wtt0xsz2jypck0gvw0j8xrcg6tpea25z2nh7meqf4qgyd","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2014-07-04\n📝 Original message:Yup, no need to apologise. If nothing else the conversations get archived\nwhere other people can use them to get up to speed faster. A lot of these\ndiscussions get spread across forums, lists and IRC so it can be hard to\nknow what the current state of the art thinking is.\n\nRecall the second prong of my opening argument - if you could beat ASICs,\nyou'd end up with botnets. I prefer having the chain be dominated by a\nsingle pool for a while than having one with a major botnet presence, given\ntheir history of doing things like mining empty blocks and giving random\npeople enormous electricity bills.\n\nI think we can make good head way if we just optimise a lot and finish\nthings off, to be honest. I'm not sure we need an algorithmic silver\nbullet. Remember you can always outsource mining by just not having any\nhardware at all, CEX style, so trying to prevent outsourcing using clever\nhacks seems ultimately doomed.\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20140704/1f440eab/attachment.html\u003e"}