Quote from: chrysophylax on May 15, 2017, 03:03:17 AM

Quote from: jjjordan on May 15, 2017, 02:55:42 AM

Quote from: chrysophylax on May 15, 2017, 02:44:43 AM

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... i personally agree with jjjordan withthe whole concept of pushing gpu mining to its limits ... asic is easy - and big - but not as readily accessible as gpu mining is ...

#crysx

That's the point - ASICs could be a way to go, and maybe not a bad one too.
It's just about an educated choice if a lot and small "peasants" like me or few but mastodon farms should be involved in the project.

ok ...

if this project is as it states ... then a few farms will NOT be the thing that is looked at in any real capacity - as it means centralizing the mining power to only a few ...

helium is a well thought out project - it is NOT in the market 'just' for sheer profits ... it is for the complete and utter decentralization of systems - so that SERVICES are the core of its gameplan ... services that require full decentralization ...

this will happen to a large extent with a few big asic farms ... but this will happen on an enormous scale - if the layman and medium sized farms are put into play ... as more servicenodes / masternodes - whatever they are going to be called now ) propagate across the world ... mining is for network and coins - nodes are for services and coin ... together - they are helium ...

centralization of mining will be a backward step for the project ...

#crysx

Second that - it looks like that is the balance devs are looking for - algo (mining) would be very attractive for big time miners/farms and service nodes would be accessible for everybody (layman farms included). I think the opposite should also be true - mining to be non-attractive to small time players (accomplished with an ASIC algo), but also nodes to be less attractive to huge mining farms. Or to put it in other words - nodes to be very heavily decentralized. Like farms that are 10 or even 100 times bigger that others to be "allowed" the same amount of nodes. Something like that...