Pindar Wong [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2015-06-01 📝 Original message:On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at ...
📅 Original date posted:2015-06-01
📝 Original message:On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:
> Whilst it would be nice if miners in China can carry on forever regardless
> of their internet situation, nobody has any inherent "right" to mine if
> they can't do the job - if miners in China can't get the trivial amounts of
> bandwidth required through their firewall and end up being outcompeted then
> OK, too bad, we'll have to carry on without them.
>
I'd rather think of mining as a responsibility than a right per se, but
you're right in so far as it's competitive and self-correcting.
>
> But I'm not sure why it should be a big deal. They can always run a node
> on a server in Taiwan and connect the hardware to it via a VPN or so.
>
>
Let's agree to disagree on this point.
p.
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📝 Original message:On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:
> Whilst it would be nice if miners in China can carry on forever regardless
> of their internet situation, nobody has any inherent "right" to mine if
> they can't do the job - if miners in China can't get the trivial amounts of
> bandwidth required through their firewall and end up being outcompeted then
> OK, too bad, we'll have to carry on without them.
>
I'd rather think of mining as a responsibility than a right per se, but
you're right in so far as it's competitive and self-correcting.
>
> But I'm not sure why it should be a big deal. They can always run a node
> on a server in Taiwan and connect the hardware to it via a VPN or so.
>
>
Let's agree to disagree on this point.
p.
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