Sunny future. Was: Bitcoin mining efficiency and Botnets

Lodewijk andré de la porte l at odewijk.nl
Tue Oct 15 04:06:21 PDT 2013


2013/10/15 Guido Witmond <guido at witmond.nl>

> I think the politics are playing out perfectly. With cheap ASICS
> flooding the market, these come in the reach of ordinary people who can
> run one on a second hand solar panel during the day. Don't bother
> wasting expensive electricity on it.
>

Solar panel energy is very expensive in most countries (those that aren't
especially sunny)


> With millions of people running these, the influence of the cartels
> diminishes. And I have a (small) chance of winning the jackpot with the
> payment fees too.
>

Cartels (or just "the wealthy") have more money to spend on whatever there
is to be bought. So it was when Bitcoin were cheap, so it is while ASICS
get cheaper, so it will be for the time to come.


> Heck, I bet you can get rich selling kits with a solar panel and a
> ASIC-miner.
>

That might be true. But many people with startups consider their startup to
be the product, to be sold to a big company later on.

The world simply is quite bleak.

Bitcoin however dodges the bleakness by being a product without judgement
on color. It simply is what it is. It tolerates a few employing the rest of
humanity as slaves, but also doesn't allow the few to dominate their
ability to have free money exchanges. Although it doesn't save the many
foolish people, it reserves them the ability to save themselves later. That
might be the best we can do right now. Maybe, if we believe the many will
stay foolish no matter the incentive, then it is the best we can ever do.
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