Centralization
How Centralized Is Bitcoin Mining Really?
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There are numerous factors to consider in weighing the centralization of bitcoin mining, and the industry can only be as decentralized as any one.
Government Centralization Vs. Bitcoin Decentralization
Greg Foss and Aaron Segal joined "Fed Watch" to discuss the current battle between governments and Bitcoin.
Blockstream Mining: A Grassroots Vision for Redistributing Hashrate
The company’s new bitcoin mining hosting service and pool is its attempt to re-democratize the mining economy.
BetterHash Protocol Lets Pool Miners Regain Control Over Their Hash Power
Matt Corallo's BetterHash mining protocol is intended to significantly decrease the problems associated with mining pool centralization.
How the Equihash Algorithm Could Democratize Zcash Mining
Mining centralization is probably one of the biggest challenges digital currencies face.Many of Bitcoin’s properties, such as censorship resistance and double-spend protection, rely to...
Exploring the Centralization Risks of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network
For the vast majority of Bitcoin Core contributors, the Lightning Network is viewed as the best option for scaling Bitcoin to many millions of...
Adam Back on Three Forms of Centralization That Have Crept Into Bitcoin
At the crux of the block-size limit debate in Bitcoin is an argument between scaling and securing the network. Although raising the block-size limit would allow...
Bitcoin Core Developers Disagree on Proposed Block Size Increase to 20MB
With the current one-megabyte-per-block limit, the Bitcoin network can process only a few transactions per second, which could strongly limit the ability of the...
Money as a Competitive Good
Bitcoin has re-introduced the idea of money as a competitive good. It has done so in a meaningful way. This idea has been conspicuously...