Quote from: smooth on January 16, 2014, 02:51:09 AM

Quote from: Tirapon on January 16, 2014, 02:28:22 AM

I have read several of these threads now, sparked I presume by the recent scare with Ghash.io acquiring nearly 50% of the network hashrate. This is a good thing: please keep making these threads to get the message across.

This is actually quite hypocritical of me to say, because I haven't been doing my part towards this issue - Its just more convenient to pick one of the well known pools and then you end up sticking with it, plus you have the interface to check your hashrate and auto payout options etc. From now on I will only point hashing power towards P2Pool, which I have know about and advocated for a while but not actually been using I'm ashamed to admit...

be careful that you are really using p2pool (p2pool.info). The web site p2pool.org has nothing to do with the actual p2pool and is in fact a centralized pool.

Thank you for switching Tirapon!

Quote from: Ekkio on January 16, 2014, 02:49:15 AM

Quote from: FandangledGizmo on January 16, 2014, 02:16:03 AM

Quote from: Ekkio on January 16, 2014, 01:53:55 AM

The main purpose of this thread is to create a healthy discussion of the problem by using better definitions. So I don't have an opinion about what would be a sound solution, but what I do know is that current agenda of Bitcoin Foundation and involved core devs will give us centralized mining.

When you say 'agenda', do you mean that, you believe that the Bitcoin Foundation and involved core devs are deliberately not trying to give us decentralised mining? If so, do you have any simple proof of that, that I would understand?

As far as I can tell there is no significant resources allocated from Bitcoin Foundation group to make mining more decentralized and they say that mining pools are ok as long as they don't misbehave, is that what you mean by "deliberately not trying to give us decentralised mining" ?

Hmm yes that is suspicous. Ekkio, do you think the Bitcoin Foundation should

A) Make the issue of 'centralisation of mining' a higher priority
B) Make it the no.1 priority
C) Literally stop everything else and just focus on that alone, till there is some solution in place?