How is bitcoin a trustless currency when you need to trust mining pools not to attack the system?
Look at this article:
http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/06/16/how-a-mining-monopoly-can-attack-bitcoin/Bitcoin could be a trustless currency if there were measured implemented to prevent centralisation of mining power.
We know the current situation is not how Satoshi intended it to be. I think if he didn't go away he would have come up with a solution a long time ago.
Any suggestions how to go about it?
I had some but I was told that they wouldn't work for such and such reason.
We need a working solution that doesn't require making
major changes to the way the protocol works.
And from what I gather, that is not possible.