Gavin Andresen tweet,
http://junseth.com/post/112626834687/stop-talking-about-confirmation-speeds-start Dark Coin was built, originally, to solve the anonymity problem. Now they introduced what they think is a fix to confirmation times. And yet, it has a fraction of the hashing power being pumped into it. All of bitcoins hashing is from 1 pool so how is petahashs any better than gigahashes of mining in keeping the network stable, and also the decentralized masternode system should keep the network doublely stable as an extra network layer, or am I missing something?
We seem, through our success, to have reached the "Then they fight you" stage:
https://twitter.com/TaoOfSatoshi/status/573937339778596864?s=09Love it. Great stuff!
Great, Gavin is comparing Bitcoin that has established itself for 6 years to Darkcoin that is just over a year old and doesn't have ASICs. Fantastic argument. Bravo.
It was a
retweet, not Gavin Andresens actual words, I didn't mean to confuse, it links to an article by someone else. Anyway all is still not good, I benched marked the new btc wallet, and yes it did 3 days update in 5 minutes on a solid state drive 4.4 gigahertz 8 thread xeon which was impressive but timings on old dual core 1.8 gigahertz with HDD was
very very slow, the CPU is at 100% all the time, even verifying the blocks only took 13 minutes!. The block size is too big for HDD drive speeds I think. Try it yourself and compare. Gavin Andresen may have a super fast raided SSD computer with 1 gig connection but the other ?half of the world is still on old HDD computers with slow connections, plus many HDD laptops that are difficult to upgrade.
I am still bench marking ...