Quote from: Grim on November 15, 2017, 03:01:02 PM

Quote from: _ingsoc on November 15, 2017, 09:10:06 AM

Quote from: Wind_FURY on November 15, 2017, 07:20:29 AM

Are the developers of Decred encouraging the manufacture of Asics for DCR? Wouldn't that be bad for the coin's decentralized nature, considering that not all miners will have access to them. Why follow Bitcoin's path in giving the Asic manufacturers/miners more power?

I can't speak for the developers (the dev contributors are a massive team at this stage), but I've seen the argument put forward that DCR is being dual mined as a default secondary coin, which naturally infers that it's not cared for as much. Those who purchase ASIC miners are more inclined to care for the well-being of Decred as a project. I personally think ASIC fears are misplaced, as I'd be far more concerned about the centralisation of mining pools.

Nobody can really stop the development of ASICs, so the fact that they're available for sale to the community/public as opposed to a private group is great to see. However, if they do become abusive to the network (as some suggest dual mining has become), Decred's stakeholders can remedy the situation with ease. I'd argue we should experiment often and try things, so we can collect data and make informed decisions after trying it.

Don't fear the miner when the stake is power.

The POW miners get 60% of EACH block. ASIC = centralization (a fact proven by BTC Warehouse farms)

So everyone is ok now that 60% of each block is shared to less people. Wow great thinking going on here.
Does this make sense to anyone?

This issue is by far way more crucial than any of the other points you bring up.
THIS really should be your number 1 concern.

LET US GOD DAMN VOTE!!! Where is my/our stake power to vote about this stuff.

I fear the ASIC miner but my voting power isn't even considered...

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ASICs can be developed for any code (just a matter of cost), but the code can be changed and forked.

Ah, didn't I read somewhere that Decred is all about embracing hard forks and voting them in or not?

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BTW I am not even against ASICs, I actually embrace them. The solution can be a multi algorithm POW system.

See? Is it so difficult to understand this one aspect of decentralization?

So will it be DEcred or CEcred?

Soon you can setup a proposal yourself man.. https://test-proposals.decred.org/ We can vote on anything!

Cheers