Quote from: jaked on January 11, 2014, 09:42:59 PM

You're trying to demoralize a perfectly legitimate behavior on part of the "hashers", but this only diverts the discussion from the real issue: the protocol itself.
The protocol was designed to encourage profit seekers, or "hashers", to.. hash.

Satoshi didn't foresee this centralization behavior.
But I can guarantee you, that if he did, he wouldn't seek a moralizing argument, but a technical solution.
The whole point of Bitcoin is to be moral-agnostic, and trust-free. It's a cryptographically secured public ledger, not a charity fund or a society equalizer.

Calling names is pointless. We need technical solutions, not moral preaching.

What I am trying to do is different, good definitions have a much greater chance to lead to intelligent discussion and this is why it is important to recognize difference between Miners and Hashers. Opening up a good discussion is a first step in finding solution.

Quote from: AdamWhite on January 11, 2014, 09:56:23 PM

Believe it or not OP, miners, hashers, are in this to generate bitcoin. Do you believe anyone would buy a jupiter or example if they were told they might not generate a block, ever? People join one pool over another not because they are evil parasites, but because they're new and they don't yet understand everything there is to know about the protocol.

Helping new people to understand the difference between Miners and Hashers is important. Miners are different from Hashers because they honor the social contract with Bitcoin community, in exchange for the reward they provide security to Bitcoin network. I think that development of tools that would make it easier for Hashers to become Miners would be a good thing.