Quote from: thelonecrouton on February 03, 2015, 01:35:42 AM

Quote from: stonehedge on February 02, 2015, 06:42:18 PM

So how many unique solo miners do you reckon SPR has to make up the current hashrate?

That may be unknowable with any degree of certainty, but we can make an educated guess:

Say there's 4GH/s total and the top 26 miners account for 20% of that, as per the pie chart that I so love posting. The smallest of those 26 miners has 0.2% of the total (I don't know what rounding might have went on but we'll go with it) which is 8MH/s, or about 6 750Ti cards or equivalent.

The other 80% of the total, 3.2GH/s, could be made up of

400 miners with 8MH/s each
800 miners with 4MH/s each
1600 miners with 2MH/s each
3200 miners with 1MH/s each

... but is almost certainly a distribution curve with larger numbers at the bottom, having, individually, smaller hashrates. Remember a lot of people still CPU mine just on the offchance, like you with your Antminers on BTC.

So I don't think I was way off with my 'thousands of smaller miners' comment. And any way you slice it it's at least hundreds of times more decentralised than just about every other PoW coin.

You're flat out wrong regarding the amount of people mining this coin. More likely far less than 100 individual miners with 10% of those getting 90% of the coins. Mostly farms using optimized miner on private pools. We all know that optimized miners and pools exist for this coin and have for some time. FPGA is likely in use as well.