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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Feasibility of limiting the computational power of each node
by
yingyush55
on 01/04/2023, 18:19:05 UTC
Assuming you're talking about computation power to perform Bitcoin mining, the answer is no. Few reasons why it's impossible,
1. Most miner these days don't run full node. They only connect to mining pool where the pool give them some computational task.
2. Since most miner connect to pool, that means most Bitcoin block is mined and broadcasted by few pools.
3. There's no way to check how many miners involved to mine a block without trusting the pool.
Mining pools are a large node. Will such centralized computing power affect the security of Bitcoin? Can several large mining pools jointly launch 51% computing power attacks