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July 25, 2017, 10:40:40 AM

but it's about ensuring the network is de-centralised.  

I've seen all kinds of stupid explanations on these forums for what constitutes "decentralized".  The current bitcoin core explanation is basically "the ability to run a node".  Lol?  Then you got Adam and the 400 MB block gang who didn't even bother to come up with some type of poorly constructed defintion.  In reality, it's the ability for people to mine the coins directly which requires commodity off the shelf mining hardware - meaning the network is currently completely centralized.  Therefore, anyone who actually cares about decentralization would be campaigning for a PoW change to GPU, otherwise there's no reason for bitcoin to exist.


If everyone mined that would help de-centralise the network, however there is no PoW change that fixes the current one's problems.
GPU's, different algorithms, they all simply kick the centralisation problems a few months down the road. We need something new, but until that comes we are stuck with what we've got.


I can't ever see Bitcoin switching to proof of stake, even if the cryptography mathematicians do find or have found a workable solution