Quote from: Red on August 07, 2010, 06:48:01 PM

I say this half flippantly and half seriously. :-)

Quote from: satoshi on August 07, 2010, 05:46:09 PM

If there's something else each person has a finite amount of that we could count for one-person-one-vote, I can't think of it. IP addresses... much easier to get lots of them than CPUs.

If I were you, I would have considered a mapping that included, "For each entry into the bitcoin transaction recording/gold mining lottery, please send $10 to Satoshi."

That would discourage botnet operators from thousands of nodes. And if it didn't you would have tens of thousands of dollars! ;-)

I can't imagine a more splintered network. Wink