Arizona State University has partnered with Dash to start a Blockchain Research Lab to look into key questions such as
mining decentralization.
While obvious topics, such as
mining decentralization and progress for hard and soft forks, were discussed over the past few days, the participants in the gathering also had an open discussion with Professor Dan Boneh at Stanford and answered questions from Google employees at their campus.
Furthermore, treechains promote a greater degree of
mining decentralization - a key issue facing the digital currency community today.
The main reason Bitcoin Gold was created was
mining decentralization.
Not exact matches
Monero can perform hard forks without
mining equipment manufacturers even finding out, such is the extent of its
decentralization!
«After Little Dragon Technology LLC acquired the patent from the original inventors, we negotiated a license to use AsicBoost in our miners on the understanding that AsicBoost would be opened up to everyone to use, under some form of defensive patent license, in the hopes it can help protect
decentralization of Bitcoin
mining,» the Halong Mining announcement s
mining,» the Halong
Mining announcement s
Mining announcement states.
The colder regions in the North of China where electricity is also relatively cheap and Bitcoin
mining flourishes may soon see some stiff competition from Canada, helping to also keep the Bitcoin ideal of
decentralization intact.
Regardless of the
decentralization, anonymity and populist «management» of bitcoin, from
mining to hodling, have many analysts offered their reasoned views on ways central banks / governments can / might / will either dilute or destroy the threat of bitcoin based crypto?
Listen to the whole Podcast to find out what Jordi, Dario and Kamil think about predictability in
mining, about ICOs and the concept of
decentralization.
The current situation, where one erratic company in a totalitarian jurisdiction that is very hostile to Bitcoin has near monopoly domination over the manufacturing and distribution of the
mining hardware that is required for the security of the global network, is unacceptable to anyone who understands the importance of
decentralization to Bitcoin.
The top four Bitcoin
mining operations and top three Ethereum ones control more than 50 % of the world's hash rate, and the entire blockchain of both systems «is determined by fewer than 20
mining entities,» due to both the Proof - of - Work requirements, but also to the lack of a governance model that ensures continued
decentralization over time.