- Central African Republic to Tokenize Mineral Resources https://crypto.news/central-african-republic-mineral-resources/ 16 comments cryptocurrency
- Kazakhstan Powers Down Bitcoin Miners as Blackouts Roil Central Asia https://decrypt.co/91204/kazakhstan-powers-down-bitcoin-miners-blackouts-roil-central-asia 9 comments cryptocurrency
- Kazakhstan Powers Down Bitcoin Miners as Blackouts Roil Central Asia https://decrypt.co/91204/kazakhstan-powers-down-bitcoin-miners-blackouts-roil-central-asia?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sm 5 comments bitcoin
- Miner centralization and censorship resistance https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/9c3vtc/miner_centralization_and_censorship_resistance/ 10 comments btc
- Small blocks promote miner centralization. Unable to spend small pool payments. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7no2m0/_/ds3tl8x 3 comments btc
- Uranium, Other Mineral Resources Behind France's Sudden Scramble to Save Central Africa http://www.globalresearch.ca/whats-really-behind-frances-sudden-scramble-to-save-central-africa/5360522 3 comments worldnews
- Bitcoin backlash as ‘miners’ suck up electricity, stress power grids in Central Washington https://www.seattletimes.com/business/bitcoin-backlash-as-miners-suck-up-electricity-stress-power-grids-in-central-washington/ 3586 comments technology
- 50 Percent Energy Rate Hike for Crypto Miners Approved in Central Washington State - Bitcoin News https://news.bitcoin.com/energy-rate-hike-crypto-miners-washington-state/ 3 comments btc
- China central bank can tell local governments to regulate bitcoin miners https://www.reuters.com/article/us-markets-bitcoin-china-mining/china-central-bank-can-tell-local-governments-to-regulate-bitcoin-miners-power-use-source-idUSKBN1ES0TD 6 comments btc
- North America to Become Cryptomining Central Now That China Miners Have Gone Dark https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/north-america-to-become-cryptomining-central-now-that-china-miners-have-gone-dark-825706664.html 11 comments cryptocurrency
- Are Miners Centralized? A Look into Mining Pools – ConsenSys Media https://media.consensys.net/are-miners-centralized-a-look-into-mining-pools-b594425411dc 9 comments ethereum
- Mining is already centralized due to ASICs—bigger blocks just allocate the cost of running the network to miners, making it accessible to users https://blog.sfox.com/is-bigger-better-how-to-evaluate-bitcoin-cash-based-on-block-size-c212243a2548 14 comments btc
- Bitcoin users are decentralized, miners are decentralized, but development is centralized. Last step for bitcoin to become decentralized. https://twitter.com/viabtc/status/790407074362515456 101 comments btc
- In a stunning display of centralization, they put "90% of hashpower" on stage, while censoring anyone who doesn't cater to Chinese miners. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVhkEhtUAAAl0LH.jpg 5 comments btc
- "Iran Daily reported new legislation requests all Bitcoin miners in the country to supply their Bitcoins to the Central Bank of Iran" https://medium.com/efficient-frontier/2017-prices-without-hysteria-1d2720452186?source=friends_link&sk=050a9b85fc7051aa87755ef2d65fa039 6 comments geopolitics
- Debunked: "Satoshi never anticipated ASICs and miner centralization. Clearly 'CPU' in the white paper is a reference to the processors used in regular home computers." https://nakamotostudies.org/email/re-bitcoin-p2p-e-cash-paper/ 36 comments btc
- Leaked Trump Presidential Memo Would Free U.S. Companies to Buy Conflict Minerals From Central African Warlords https://theintercept.com/2017/02/08/leaked-memo-trump-conflict-minerals/ 42 comments politics
- Emin Sirer in a shitstorm of tweets: "PoW is wasted energy if there is no attack, proof: miners could turn off half their rigs waiting for an attack" "PoW is centralized protocol" "The protocol I advise are The Future (TM) - Avalanche". This guy is embarrassing. https://twitter.com/el33th4xor/status/999214166903808000 106 comments btc
- Satoshi quotes prove that the original bitcoin scaling plan was very clear from day one. And guess what ? it was not to have a centrally planned quota below market demand by the use of massive censorship and demonizing miners https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7v8aat/satoshi_quotes_prove_that_the_original_bitcoin/ 60 comments btc
- Blockstream / Core changes narrative once again, from "BU will be centralized by the economic majority" to "Please economic majority, help us standing up AGAINST MINERS" https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5zwd86/bitcoin_economic_majority_must_stand_up_against/ 5 comments btc
- Conflict Minerals In Our Electronic Devices Continue To Bankroll Unspeakable Violence In The Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and its Neighbors. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/10/conflict-minerals/gettleman-text 3 comments worldnews
- Craig 'Faketoshi' Wright's BSV association released a new hardfork client. The new protocol may allow anyone cooperating with miners or the admin of a centrally controlled “whitelist” to confiscate any BSV coins from any user at any time https://nitter.it/BitMEXResearch/status/1592177385621057538#m 26 comments cryptocurrency
- Elon Musk: "[BTC] is actually highly centralized, with supermajority controlled by handful of big mining (aka hashing) companies. A single coal mine in Xinjiang flooded, almost killing miners, and [BTC] hash rate dropped 35%. Sound “decentralized” to you? https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1393993975019749382 27 comments btc
- Bigger blocks do not cause increased mining centralization, miners do not run full nodes, the pools do. This is a type of free market of pools, or a form of representative democracy for miners. I can switch my miners over to another pool within seconds, changing my vote. https://twitter.com/Justin_Bons/status/1041662385721933827?s=19 27 comments btc
- Black Lung Rate Hits 25-Year High In Appalachian Coal Mining States : One in five working coal miners in central Appalachia who have worked at least 25 years now suffer from the coal miners' disease black lung. https://www.npr.org/2018/07/19/630470150/black-lung-rate-hits-25-year-high-in-appalachian-coal-mining-states 48 comments science
- Black lung study finds largest recorded cluster in Central Appalachia | The study provides further evidence that progressive massive fibrosis, commonly called black lung, has surged in recent years among coal miners in Central Appalachia http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/article199365009.html 21 comments science
- Chinese Central Bank Hosts Closed-Door Meeting on Electricity Usage of Bitcoin Miners - Bitcoin News https://news.bitcoin.com/chinese-central-bank-hosts-a-closed-door-meeting-over-electricity-usage-of-bitcoin-miners/ 6 comments btc
- China’s central bank told a top-level government internet finance group that the monetary authority can tell local governments to regulate the power usage of bitcoin miners to gradually reduce the scale of their production. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-markets-bitcoin-china-mining/china-central-bank-can-tell-local-governments-to-regulate-bitcoin-miners-power-use-source-iduskbn1es0td 17 comments worldnews
- Cøbra: we don’t let any external entity such as the market, miners, central bank or government define for us what is and isn’t a Bitcoin https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7b4st5/c%C3%B8bra_we_dont_let_any_external_entity_such_as_the/ 96 comments btc
- On the 1 hand core would have you believe that miners are unimportant as evidenced with the UASF campaign. On the other they would have you think miners are terribly important because if they happen to geographically centralize later on due to bandwidth latency of > 1MB blocks we're screwed. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7966mb/on_the_1_hand_core_would_have_you_believe_that/ 5 comments btc
- My response to Gregory Maxwell's statement that "maintaining Bitcoin without a block size limit starts with an initial assumption that the system is changed to become endlessly inflationary and that miners will not centralize." https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6lhv8r/my_response_to_gregory_maxwells_statement_that/ 99 comments btc
- Craig Wright has some interesting criticisms of Segregated Witness, says segwit may allow developers to set fees centrally and also results in miners being incentivized to not validate fully. https://pastebin.com/Emiy9q4i 135 comments btc
- Who is "Credit China"? Why did they just give $30 million dollars to the biggest private miner BitFury? Why is BitFury AGAINST more-profitable market-based blocksizes via a clean upgrade (Unlimited) - and in FAVOR of a centrally-planned 1.7MB blocksize via a messy "anyone-can-spend" hack (SegWit)? http://bitfury.com/content/4-press/the_bitfury_group_credit_china_fintech_release_1_25_16.pdf 9 comments btc
- Declining BTC price reduces miner profit, forcing centralized scaling to remain profitable. The opposite facilitates decentralization - rising prices allow a diverse, decentralized ecosystem of miners to flourish! Scale now to decentralize. https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/declining-profitability-for-new-miners-threatens-bitcoin-decentralization/ 8 comments btc
- Crazy Idea: a decentralized MMORPG with a cryptocurrency layer instead of a central server that rewards miners for hosting the game. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4w8tfx/crazy_idea_a_decentralized_mmorpg_with_a/ 13 comments btc
- The Fed/FOMC holds meetings to decide on money supply. Core/Blockstream & Chinese miners now hold meetings to decide on money velocity. Both are centralized decision-making. Both are the wrong approach. https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/search?q=btcdrak&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all 119 comments btc
- Change in PoW will create a new centralization of mining. It is not a move to decentralize bitcoin, it is a move to keep core control because they fear a miner vote. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieP8kxaklUk&feature=youtu.be&t=1891 4 comments btc
- The biggest threat to Bitcoin is Blockstream President Adam "Phd" Back. He never understood Bitcoin, but he wants to control it and radically change it. It is time for Bitcoin users, developers and miners to reject his dangerous ideas and his attempts to centrally control our community and our code. https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/47ucpv/the_rbtc_china_dispatch_episode_10_one_bitcoin/ 59 comments btc
- India has rich deposits of Thorium, the radio active element, which is being used for the nuclear reactors.Rampant illegal sand mining on the Tamil Nadu coasts have put national security at risk. But, the central government is silent and is allowing miners to export vital nuclear materials. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk1eiy3y6uq 9 comments india
- Soros Gold Bubble at $1,375 as Miners Push Each Button to Tears - Story of the SPDR Gold Trust. Invented by mining companies to broaden market for gold. Succeeded beyond wildest dreams. Holds more bullion than Swiss central bank. Has helped drive gold price up fourfold. http://www.businessweek.com/investing/content/dec2010/pi20101219_611772.htm 16 comments business
