{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1a3zpmn53lhv8jv7vjg3daletu2e6e9ce88737ga2r7dkr7yc7dss7r6s85","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1a3zpmn53lhv8jv7vjg3daletu2e6e9ce88737ga2r7dkr7yc7dss7r6s85","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2016-05-11\n📝 Original message:On 05/11/2016 02:01 PM, Matt Corallo via bitcoin-dev wrote:\n\u003e Indeed, I think the \"ASICs are bad, because 1-CPU-1-vote\" arguments\n\u003e mostly died out long ago, and, indeed, the goal that many making those\n\u003e arguments had of building \"unoptimizeable\" ASICs failed with them.\n\nDiscussion quietened down but never went away.  With centralization of\nmining in China, the topic is up for discussion again.  For example,\nZ.Cash will now use Equihash as their proof-of-work scheme.\n\n\u003e giving one\n\u003e manufacturer/licenser a huge influence in who is successful in a market\n\u003e that we're all relying on remaining rather flat.\n\nCentral planning is a slippery slope.  Let the market decide the winners\nand losers.  It's not feasible to hard fork every time an innovation or\nperceived unfair advantage appears in the space.\n\n--Simon"}