Quote from: turvarya on December 01, 2014, 08:10:49 AM

How are mining pools not a whackamole-game?
I don't get, why so many people are talking about pools, like they actually have the hashrate. They just don't. Like a site, like ThePirateBay doesn't have the files on their servers, but the files are om individual PC around the world, the hashrate is not on a pool, but on individual PCs/Asic around the world.
You just assume, that people would stay on a government controlled pool, but there is just no reason, why they should.

Try rereading the posts where we talk about confiscation of mining equipment if it isn't used to mine on the approved pools and if there is not adequate IP anonymization to hide your mining equipment.

What happens when you as a citizen try to avoid AML and KYC laws? Have you reviewed the penalties for money laundering?

Don't expect the government to be reasonable. Review some of the crazy Civil Forfeiture seizures. The powers-that-be were really wicked. They let the police keep the seized goods, thus police have become corrupted and it is like a drug. They now need more and more seizures to feed all the additional expenditures they've scheduled due to the increase in income from seizures.

The powers-that-be will incentivize the authorities all over the world to become thieves.

This is the sort of decadence that was the demise of Western Rome and every other empire. We should expect to see massive corruption at the top of the world's largest ever global debt bubble.

Even ignorance is at all time high. If you guys are not awake, do you really think the masses are waking up? No! They are just getting restless. But they have no clue how and what to really be restless against. Their angst will be directed by the powers-that-be. It is always like this. Even the French Revolution ended up supporting the authoritarian outcome of Napoleon. People can't lead themselves and they can't be decentralized. Never.

Stop with your silly "decentralization is a magic cure for human nature" and franky1's "decentralization implements itself spontaneously out of thin air so relax no changes please" fantasies. The best we can hope for is a benevolent leader. And a modicum of useful decentralization such that killing the leader doesn't destroy the positive technological advance.

Great technological advance never comes from a group. It comes from leadership and individual innovation. However, great leaders can sometimes work together, or they can work with great sidekicks. And group feedback and input is always useful. And the group is good at spotting outliers such as bugs and missed cases, i.e. groups (open source) are (is) very useful for refinement.