children, seriously, you are spamming up the forum with your naive blathering. if tycho tries anything fishy with his pool, it will instantly dissolve like a tab of acid on the tongue as the people in his pool flee. tycho is making 3% off of his 50% share of the network. that means hes personally getting 1.5% of all the bitcoins generated right now. you think he would risk that to fake some piddly 50 bitcoin blocks? the people that post these threads are so very profoundly stupid.
Prove it.
Let's say hypothetically tycho forks the block chain about 1000 times, and blocks all the other pools from getting any confirmations of blocks. 5000 people who never read the forums or watch the block chain or know anything other than "my stats are goin up at a fantastic rate!" are going to stop mining on deepbit because...?
Your post sounds the most profoundly stupid to me.
1) what would tycho gain from forking the block chain 1000 times? hes making more money by not doing that.
2) if these hypothetical people don't read the forums, how did they learn about tycho's pool to begin with?
the unsuccessful always try to punish the successful
Imagine if you will, that HP came out with a new printer that could print authentic $USD bills.
Do you think that there would be some deflation of the currency as noone would be able to tell if a $20 was authentic or not? Do you think anyone in their right mind would invest in a set amount of the currency when it had no way of being empricially verified to be true anymore?
It hurts everyone who uses bitcoin to have someone who is egrigiously violating the spirit of bitcoin's distributed nature.