Quote from: casascius on November 05, 2011, 11:11:12 PM

Quote from: molecular on November 01, 2011, 01:36:07 PM

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So people might come up with the idea of proxying this decision-making. This might put the decision-making into too few hands, of course, and all the decentralization is down the drain.

I don't think this is a good idea, therefore.
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In a way, this has already happened. Surely the three (or so) largest pools already constitute exactly what you have described.

True. I think this is not a good situation.

I've seen in other threads that some people think mining in a bigger pool is more profitable. Pretty sad... there's so many small pools that'd deserve to become medium-sized.