📅 Original date posted:2013-08-19
📝 Original message:Thank you for setting me straight. Please forgive my ignorance.
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille at gmail.com>wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Frank F <frankf44 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I strongly object to removing the only mechanism that allows anyone to
> say
> > that bitcoin is p2p, in the truest sense of the word. Moves like this
> that
> > favor only the pool operators and private mining interests are signs that
> > bitcoin is headed towards a monopoly/cartel model, and that would be a
> > tragic outcome for something that holds a great promise. Nobody knows
> what
> > mining will look like in the future, and denying the individual novice
> the
> > ability to mine at a small scale, even if we may think it is inefficient
> > now, is not a good path to start down.
> >
> > If there are technical problems with getwork, maybe they should be
> addressed
> > and fixed instead of outright abandoned.
>
> They were addressed and fixed in a successor API, getblocktemplate.
> It's even more decentralization-friendly, as it allows the caller to
> see what transactions the daemon is trying to put into a block, and
> even modify it.
>
> The suggestion here is not to remove functionality - only to remove an
> obsolete API for doing so.
>
> --
> Pieter
>
--
*MONEY IS OVER!*
IF YOU WANT IT<http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/>;
=====================================================
The causes of my servitude can be traced to the tyranny of money.
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