Quote from: alc on November 30, 2014, 06:22:38 PM

Quote from: Soros Shorts on November 30, 2014, 04:30:56 PM

The centralization of farms is a bigger problem than the centralization of pools.

Agreed, though really they're two different expressions of the same problem: the impetus towards centralization via economies of scale.

Quote from: franky1 on November 30, 2014, 04:50:31 PM

because he is mis understanding the multiple users connected to a mining pool, centralisation (which i and the OP mentioned) vs a single mining farm centralising the hash power.

See above.

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turvarya]ad 1. lol, where? China?
There were some banning of websites in Austria, but I just changed my DNS for that.

ad 2. with all the lobbying from the content companies in the governments, i don't see how it is a smaller issue for the governments. They really tried a lot, to get such sites offline and they clearly failed. I mean, you don't really want to tell, they didn't try pretty hard, do you?

1/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_blocking_access_to_The_Pirate_Bay
2/ You don't see "copyright" as a smaller issue than "control of money"? You're entitled to your opinion, I suppose.

lol
Austria is on that list. I have no problem going to that site or the other sites, so the "ban" is useless. That just is in favor or my argument: They tried, but they by far didn't succeed.
You can compare them by the technology and how government try to ban them.