Re: Question regarding the role of miners vs nodes in securing the network
I knew about Satoshi's 2008 e-mail, it is Satoshi, not the White Paper, not Bitcoin to be specific.
They aren't different things.And if we are to be pedantic then the 7.5 pages of abstraction and simplification known as white paper doesn't represent the reality of Bitcoin either. The code does, and from the code it is obvious that parallelism and scaling (specifically nonce+extra nonce instead of only nonce or limiting it to a bigger nonce size that would be exhausted in a couple of years as hashrate grew) for much higher hashrate is envisioned.
IMHO, it is not a good practice to put the paper aside and quote from the writer chats and comments. It doesn't help after all.
BTW, giving space in a codebase for very large numbers is a common practice in software engineering and programming, doesn't imply the existence of a comprehensive and complete plan for dealing with scaling problems. It is just so easy to give extra space to variables for extreme conditions but doesn't help enough when the system goes through an actual boom condition.
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No, it is the exact, direct definition of slavery,
I don't think you know what "slavery" means.
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Issues don't fix themselves. Those who see the issue must do something about it.
I encourage you to start working on a proposal to address the issue and write a better mining pool software to be used by pools and the miners who connect to them in order to give more power/control to the miners.
Thank you for the encouragement, but I rather need contribution and support ATM. I encourage you to start working on a proposal to address the issue and write a better mining pool software to be used by pools and the miners who connect to them in order to give more power/control to the miners.
