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Title: Outside analysis of POW
Post by: santaclause102 on November 18, 2014, 05:38:47 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlydjg1tiso well said.
Title: Re: Outside analysis of POW
Post by: gamey on November 18, 2014, 06:09:14 pm

This is roughly my impression.  It is sad but true.  He gets a bit lost talking about the stone people but I think hes fairly correct on everything else. 

While btc looks centralized it can be split up quite quickly if people are properly motivated.  It isn't like the centralization in btc has a huge overhead in being broken up. 
Title: Re: Outside analysis of POW
Post by: santaclause102 on November 18, 2014, 07:49:03 pm

This is roughly my impression.  It is sad but true.  He gets a bit lost talking about the stone people but I think hes fairly correct on everything else. 

While btc looks centralized it can be split up quite quickly if people are properly motivated.  It isn't like the centralization in btc has a huge overhead in being broken up.
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gets a bit lost talking about the stone people
haha  +5%

It can only be broken up by moving away from sha256 mining and at best from pow at all...
Title: Re: Outside analysis of POW
Post by: eagleeye on November 19, 2014, 10:04:55 am
Great post delulo.

 +5%
Title: Re: Outside analysis of POW
Post by: cube on November 19, 2014, 12:12:10 pm

This is roughly my impression.  It is sad but true.  He gets a bit lost talking about the stone people but I think hes fairly correct on everything else. 

While btc looks centralized it can be split up quite quickly if people are properly motivated.  It isn't like the centralization in btc has a huge overhead in being broken up.

Yea. The miners can easily switch to other pools, if and when they wanted to.
Title: Re: Outside analysis of POW
Post by: CLains on November 19, 2014, 12:35:25 pm
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Fundemental Contradiction of the Bitcoin System

The system requires competitive mining to maintain its integrity

BUT the Bitcoin mining industry has the structure of a natural monopoly

These are incompatible

Therefore Bitcoin is unsustainable

Therefore Bitcoin must collapse