Profitability Guide

Mining Profitability Guide

To calculate mining profitability, you should follow these steps, no matter which calculator you are using:

๐Ÿ”ธ๏ธBe sure you know your GPU models and the Hash rates.

๐Ÿ”ธ๏ธBe sure you know the algorithm of the coin.

๐Ÿ”ธ๏ธChoose the exchange you plan to use for selling coins. This is necessary if you want more precise results.

๐Ÿ”ธ๏ธBe sure you know your electricity cost.


You can find a list of calculators online that are used by miners, here:

https://bithouseco.home.blog/2021/09/12/mining-calculators/


๐Ÿ”น๏ธ Be sure to keep track of whatโ€™s happening in the cryptocurrency world, if you arenโ€™t doing so already. If a coin has problems, it will definitely affect the price and mining profitability, and may even prevent you from selling mined coins.

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Bitcoin Quotes

Bitcoin Quotes from around the World



“Bitcoin actually has the balance

and incentives right, and that is why

it is starting to take off. “

Julian Assange

Bitcoin has the balance and incentives right

” It isnโ€™t obvious that the world had to work this way.

But somehow the universe smiles on encryption.โ€

Julian Assange

The universe smiles on encryption

” The innovation is that BTC is hard to shut down. […]

Designed from the ground up to survive under the most adversarial conditions. “

Hasu

Bitcoin is hard to shut down

” Bitcoin is the most successful privacy coin to date. “

Pierre Rochard

Most successful privacy coin to date

” Bitcoin is a mathematical miracle. “

Steve Wozniak (Apple Co-Founder)

Mathematical miracle

” Bitcoin is a technological innovation that happens once a species. “

Trace Mayer

Technological innovation that happens once in a species

” Bitcoin doesnโ€™t care about who you are or what your feelings are.

Bitcoin represents equal opportunity

to participate in a system

not encumbered by

our legacy fiat structures. “

White Rabbit

Participate in a system not encumbered by FIAT

” We’re here to unfuck the money and there’s no stopping us.

Fix the money,

change the world. “

White Rabbit

Fix the Money, Change the World

” Hardly anybody actually

understands money. “

Nick Szabo

Nobody understands money

” When you have a disruptive technology,

they call it a category killer.

Bitcoin is a serial killer –

itโ€™s going to go through

40 or 50 different industries. “

Dan Morehead

Bitcoin is a serial killer

” It’s 21 million or death.”

Robert Breedlove

21 million or death

” It might make sense just to get some in case it catches on. “

Satoshi Nakamoto

In case it catches on

” Trusted third parties

are security holes. “

Nick Szabo

Trusted third parties

” There are only going to be

21 million coins,

there are billions of people

in the world, some reasonable percentage of who might

find it interesting to

own a piece of Bitcoin.”

Adam Back

21 Million Coins

” I think itโ€™s essential for a program of this nature to be open source. “

Satoshi Nakamoto

Open Source

” SHA-256 is very strong. Itโ€™s not like the incremental step from MD5 to SHA1.

It can last several decades unless thereโ€™s some massive breakthrough attack. “

Satoshi Nakamoto

Sha-256

” Code mixed with robust game theory is superior to hierarchical command and control. “

โ„ญoinsure

Code superior to hierarchical command and control

” Given that money is one half of every commercial transaction and that whole civilizations literally rise and fall based on the quality of their money, we are talking about an awesome power, one that flies under the cover of night. “

Ron Paul

Money… an awesome power

” The world has to adapt to bitcoin, not the other way round. “

Herzmeister

The world has to adapt to bitcoin

” When I first bought bitcoin it took me two years of speculation to understand what Bitcoin really was.

But once I fully had a grasp of it, it was life altering. “

Russell Okung

Bitcoin is life altering

” Many countries stand to gain from Bitcoinโ€™s adoption as it would remove their dependence on the US dollar and provide them with a feasible alternative. “

Misir Mahmudov

Bitcoin a feasible alternative to the US $

” Bitcoin is a optimist bet on the future, a bet on human ingenuity.

Gold is a pessimist bet on the past and, often a bet the end of civilization. “

Rodolfo Novak

Bitcoin a bet on Human Ingenuity

” Everyone has got to believe in something.

Why not believe in something verifiable and unforgeable. “

Hass McCook

Believe in something verifiable and unforgeable

” Open source software is a meritocracy of ideas, not of people.

So people are always talking about “Who controls Bitcoin?”

Good ideas control Bitcoin.

Not people.”

Ben Prentice

Good ideeas control Bitcoin

“Bitcoin is a seed of hope in a society which lost vision years ago and perspective just recently. “

Kim Neunert

Bitcoin a seed of hope

” Bitcoin has an inescapable, unavoidable, and omnipotent magnetism for the brightest and most revolutionary minds on the planet.

I’ve never witnessed anything like it. “

Brandon Bridge

Bitcoin’s magnetism

” This is why proof of work needs to be expensive, if it is cheap you can roll back things easily.

You want it to be very difficult to change history.

The only way to make it difficult to change history is to make the process of writing the current history very expensive. “

Jimmy Song

Difficult to change history

” Bitcoin is like gold but with this magical ability that you

can teleport it.”

Vijay Boyapati

Bitcoin magical ability to teleport it

” Can Bitcoin be stopped?

“Not really, this thing is a beast.

As Mises wrote:

Ideas can only be overcome by other ideas. “

Trace Mayer

Bitcoin cannot be stopped

“I’m not here to fix Bitcoin.”

Michael Saylor

Fix bitcoin

” Buying bitcoin is the most powerful protest an individual can make against the current economic system. “

Luc Dossis

Buying bitcoin is the most powerful protest

” These numbers have nothing to do with the technology of the devices; they are the maximums that thermodynamics will allow.

And they strongly imply that brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space. “

Bruce Schneier

Maximums that thermodynamics will allow

” Cryptocurrency is such a powerful concept that it can almost

overturn governments. “

Charles Lee

Cryptocurrency can almost overturn governments

” Bitcoin will do to banks what email did to the postal industry. “

Rick Falkvinge

Bitcoin is the email for the postal industry

” I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world. “

Peter Thiel

Bitcoin has the potential to change the world

” Bitcoin is the most important invention in the history of the world since the Internet. “

Roger Ver

Bitcoin the most important invention in the history since the Internet

” Gold is a great way to preserve wealth, but it is hard to move around. You do need some kind of alternative and Bitcoin fits the bill. “

Jim Rickards

Bitcoin fits the bill as a way to preserve wealth

” You canโ€™t stop things like Bitcoin.

It will be everywhere and the world will have to readjust.

World governments will have to readjust. “

John McAfee

Bitcoin will be everywhere and the world will have to readjust

” I think the fact that within the bitcoin universe an algorithm replaces the function of the governmentโ€ฆ is actually pretty cool. “

Al Gore

An algorithm replaces the function of government

“People have made fortunes off Bitcoin, some have lost money.

It is volatile, but people make money off of volatility too.”

Richard Branson

Some lost, some won with Bitcoin

” The ability to create something which is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous valueโ€ฆ

Lotโ€™s of people will build businesses on top of that. “

Eric Schmidt

Create something wich is not duplicable

“PayPal had these goals of creating a new currency.

We failed at thatโ€ฆ

I think Bitcoin has succeeded on the level of a new currency, but the payment system is lacking.”

Peter Thiel

Bitcoin succeeded as a new currency

” As people move into Bitcoin for payments and receipts they stop using US Dollars, Euros and Chinese Yuan which in the long-term devalues these currencies. “

John McAfee

Bitcoin devalues $ โ‚ฌ ยฅ

” Bitcoin is the Currency of Resistanceโ€ฆ

If Satoshi had released Bitcoin 10 years earlier, 9/11 would

never have happened. “

Max Keiser

Bitcoin the currency of resistance

“At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency, designed by very forward-thinking engineers. “

Peter Diamandis

Bitcoin is a smart currency

“The internet is going to be one of

the major forces for reducing

the role of government.

One thing thatโ€™s missing but that

will soon be developed,

is a reliable  e-cash.”

Milton Friedman

E-Cash

” Bitcoin is a technological

tour de force. “

Bill Gates

Tour de force

” If you donโ€™t believe it or donโ€™t get it,

I donโ€™t have the time

to try to convince you,

sorry. “

Satoshi Nakamoto

Don’t have the time

“WikiLeaks has kicked the hornetโ€™s nest, and the swarm is headed towards us.”

Satoshi Nakamoto

WikiLeaks

” Lost coins only make everyone

elseโ€™s coins worth slightly more.

Think of it as a donation to everyone.”

Satoshi Nakamoto

Lost Coins

” In a few decades when the reward gets too small, the transaction fee

will become the main compensation

for [mining] nodes.

Iโ€™m sure that in 20 years there

will either be very large transaction volume or no volume.”

Satoshi Nakamoto

Transaction fee

” As computers get faster and the total computing power applied to creating bitcoins increases, the difficulty increases proportionally to keep the total new production constant.

Thus, it is known in advance how many new bitcoins will be created every year in the future.

Coins have to get initially distributed somehow, and a constant rate seems like the best formula.”

Satoshi Nakamoto

Coins distribution at a constant rate is the best formula

” Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without

a government, something

necessary and imperative. “

Nassim Taleb

Bitcoin a currency without a government

” Those who believe in Bitcoin also believe in cleverness. “

Arif Naseem

Believe in bitcoin believe in cleverness

” Bitcoin is the most stellar and

most useful system of

mutual trust ever devised. “

Arif Naseem

Bitcoin a system of mutual trust

Cryptocurrency is freedom,

Banking is slavery. “

Arif Naseem

Cryptocurrency is freedom

” Our basic thesis for bitcoin is

that it is better than gold. “

Tyler Winklevoss

Bitcoin better than gold

” I think the whole narrative

of blockchain without bitcoin

will amount to very little. “

Fred Ehrsam

Blockchain without bitcoin

” Every informed person needs to know about Bitcoin because it might be one of the worldโ€™s most important developments. “

Leon Louw

Bitcoin world’s most important developments

” Bitcoin is a very exciting development, it might lead to a world currency.

I think over the next decade it will grow to become one of the most important ways to pay for things and transfer assets. “

Kim Dotcom (CEO of MegaUpload) 

Bitcoin might lead to a world currency

” Bitcoin may be the TCP/IP of money. “

Paul Buchheit (Creator of Gmail)

Bitcoin the TCP/IP of money

” We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error. “

Tyler Winklevoss (Co-inventor of Facebook)

Mathematical framework free of politics and human error

” I really like Bitcoin.

I own Bitcoins.

Itโ€™s a store of value, a distributed ledger.

Itโ€™s a great place to put assets, especially in places like Argentina with 40 percent inflation, where $1 today is worth 60 cents in a year, and a governmentโ€™s currency does not hold value.

Itโ€™s also a good investment vehicle if you have an appetite for risk.

But it wonโ€™t be a currency until volatility slows down. “

David Marcus (CEO of Paypal)

Bitcoin a store of value

” [Virtual Currencies] may hold long-term promise, particularly if the innovations promote a faster, more secure and more efficient payment system. “

Ben Bernanke (Chairman of the Federal Reserve)

Bitcoin may hold long-term promise

“There are 3 eras of currency: Commodity based, politically based, and now, math based. “

Chris Dixon (Co-founder of Hunch now owned by Ebay, Co-founder of SiteAdvisor now owned by McAfee)

Math based currency

” Bitcoin is here to stay.

There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency.

And I wouldnโ€™t want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury. “

Adam Draper

Bitcoin is here to stay

” Itโ€™s money 2.0, a huge hugehuge  deal. “

Chamath Palihapitiya (Previous head of AOL instant messenger)

Money 2.0

” If there is one positive takeaway from the collapse of Mt.Gox, it is the willingness of a new generation of Bitcoin companies to work together to ensure the future of Bitcoin and the security of customer funds. “

Brian Armstrong (CEO of Coinbase)

Future of bitcoin

” Bitcoin seems to be a very promising idea.

I like the idea of basing security on the assumption that the CPU power of honest participants outweighs that of the attacker.

It is a very modern notion that exploits the power of the long tail. “

Hal Finney

Bitcoin a very promising idea…

” Bitcoin enables certain uses that are very unique.

I think it offers possibilities that no other currency allows.

For example the ability to spend a coin that only occurs when two separate parties agree to spend the coin; with a third party that couldnโ€™t run away with the coin itself. “

Pieter Wuille

Bitcoin enables uses that are very unique

” At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency, designed by very forward-thinking engineers.

It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit cardfees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitionsโ€ฆ all good things. “

Peter Diamandis

Good things

” There is so much potentialโ€ฆ

I am just waiting for it to be a billion dollar industry.โ€

โ€œ Wow, Silk Road actually works โ€

Charlie Shrem

Silk Road actually works





Bitcoin is independent from “crypto”

Bitcoin vs “Crypto

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ย ย  The quality of Bitcoin’s monetary policy and the public’s confidence that the policy will be respected in the long-run is all what really matters.

For all of you out there, who believe that Bitcoin falls under the “crypto” umbrella, you could not be further from the truth.

“Crypto” is designated for the affinity scams that launched in Bitcoin’s shadow and attempted to leverage its pedigree and latch on to its narrative to sell useless tokens to unwitting noobs.

The scammers believe they can “beat” Bitcoin by providing a feature set and a “culture” more appealing to the masses and make individuals more likely to pick their favorite “crypto” over the best money humans have ever come in contact with.

As most people, these people couldn’t be more delusional.

The success of Bitcoin doesn’t depend on the “culture” of bitcoiners.

Bitcoin is a protocol that has no way of knowing the “culture” of its users.

If it is successful it will be used by many different people from many worldwideย  lands with very different cultures.

A cultural hold on a particular competitive landscape of social media doesn’t really impress no one at the end of the day.

What really matters is the quality of Bitcoin’s monetary policy and the public’s confidence that the policy will be respected in the long-run.

The best way to build confidence in that policy is to make the cost of attempting to change that policy, or falling out of line with the consensus rules of the network as high as possible.

Nothing in “crypto” comes close to Bitcoin in these regards, and that is because the Bitcoin network is slowly but surely integrating itself into the energy sector of the globe.

The execution risks associated with mining Bitcoin have become very high.

If a miner fucks up and falls out of consensus, they are punished materially by missing out on precious block reward payouts.

As the network becomes more integrated with the energy sector, these costs will rise and abiding by the monetary policy put forth by the network of full nodes will be paramount.

It happend in 2017 when the biggest corporate players and miners attempted to hard fork a block space increase that fell out of consensus with the full nodes on the network.

The unwillingness to follow consensus ruined reputations and lost a lot of miners a lot of money over the four years that have followed the hard fork.

This is the certainty for the people, that bitcoin is a suitable monetary good in the digital age.

All of “crypto” pretenters focused on speed, app building, and being less “energy intensive” have completely missed the plot and have relegated themselves to a hedonistic odd sand box filled with degenerate gamblers and low energy thinkers.

Bitcoin has already won because it has won the energy game.

This energy game is what will protect Bitcoin’s monetary policy in the long-run, being strongly incentivized by full nodes to do so.

Very few understand this and very few will ever understand that !!!

Bitcoin

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Bitcoinย is a decentralizedย digital currencyย that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority:ย transaction managementย andย money issuanceย are carried out collectively by the network.

The original Bitcoin software byย Satoshi Nakamotoย was released under the MIT license. Most client software, derived or “from scratch”, also use open source licensing.

Transactions are verified by networkย nodesย throughย cryptographyย and recorded in a publicย distributed ledgerย called aย blockchain.

Theย cryptocurrencyย was invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the nameย Satoshi Nakamoto.

The currency began use in 2009ย when its implementation was released asย open-source software.

Bitcoins are created as a reward for a process known asย mining. They can be exchanged for other currencies, products, and services, but the real-world value of the coins is extremely volatile.

Bitcoin is the first successful implementation of aย distributed crypto-currency, described in part in 1998 byย Wei Daiย on the cypherpunks mailing list. Building upon the notion that money is any object, or any sort of record, accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a given country or socio-economic context, Bitcoin is designed around the idea of using cryptography to control the creation and transfer of money, rather than relying on central authorities.

Bitcoins have all the desirable properties of a money-like good. They are portable, durable, divisible, recognizable, fungible, scarce and difficult to counterfeit.

Bitcoin has been criticized for its use in illegal transactions, the large amount of electricity (and thusย carbon footprint) used by mining,ย 
price volatility, and thefts from exchanges.

Some economists and commentators have characterized it as aย speculative bubbleย at various times.

Bitcoin has also been used as an investment, although several regulatory agencies have issued investor alerts about bitcoin.

Research produced by theย University of Cambridgeย estimated that in 2017, there were 2.9 to 5.8 million unique users using aย cryptocurrency wallet, most of them using bitcoin.

Why?

Bitcoin is P2P electronic cash that is valuable over legacy systems because of the monetary autonomy it brings to its users.

Bitcoin seeks to address the root problem with conventional currency: all the trust that’s required to make it work — Not that justified trust is a bad thing, but trust makes systems brittle, opaque, and costly to operate.

Trust failures result in systemic collapses, trust curation creates inequality and monopoly lock-in, and naturally arising trust choke-points can be abused to deny access to due process.

Through the use of cryptographic proof, decentralized networks and open source software Bitcoin minimizes and replaces these trust costs.

Bitcoinย Transactionsย are:

  • Permissionlessย andย borderless. The software can be installed by anybody worldwide.
  • Anonymous. Bitcoin does not require any ID to use making it suitable for the unbanked, the privacy-conscious, computers or people in areas with underdeveloped financial infrastructure.
  • Private. When used with care bitcoin can supportย strong financial privacy.
  • Censorship-resistant. Nobody is able to block or freeze a transaction of any amount.
  • Fast. Transactions can be made almost as fast as data can travel over the Internet.
  • Cheap. Fees can beย very very low.Irreversibleย once settled, like cash. (butย consumer protection is still possible.)
  • Online and availableย 24 hours a day, 365 days per year.

Bitcoin can also be aย store of value, some have said it is a “swiss bank account in your pocket”.

Stored Bitcoins:

  • Cannot be printed or debased.ย Onlyย 21 million bitcoinsย will ever exist.
  • Haveย no storage costs. They take up no physical space regardless of amount.
  • Areย easy to protect and hide. Can be stored on a phone, computer, encrypted on aย paper backupย orย memorized in your head.
  • No counterparty risk. If you keep theย private keyย of a bitcoin secret and the transaction has enough confirmations, then nobody can take them from you no matter for what reason, no matter how good the excuse, no matter what.
  • Can be underย divided possessionย withย Multisignature. For example with a 2-of-3 multisig scheme there would beย threeย private keys, of whichย any twoย is enough to spend the money. Those three keys can be spread anywhere, perhaps in multiple locations or known by multiple people. No other asset does this, for example you cannot hold gold coins under multisig.

What is Bitcoin?

A. Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer currency. Peer-to-peer means that no central authority issues new money or tracks transactions. These tasks are managed collectively by theย network.

How does Bitcoin work?

A. Bitcoin usesย public-key cryptography, peer-to-peer networking, andย proof-of-workย to process and verify payments. Bitcoins are sent (or signed over) from one address to another with each user potentially having many, many addresses. Each payment transaction is broadcast to the network and included in the blockchain so that the included bitcoins cannot be spent twice. After an hour or two, each transaction is locked in time by the massive amount of processing power that continues to extend the blockchain. Using these techniques, Bitcoin provides a fast and extremely reliable payment network that anyone can use.

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Satoshi Nakamoto bitcoin quotes

The Times 03/Jan/2009
Wikileaks
Lost coins
Transaction fees
Anonymous vs. Pseudonymous
bitcoin’s convenience against credit cards
Scarce asset
Generate new bitcoin address
Not having bitcoin would be the net waste
Inflation vs. Deflation in bitcoin
Potential for a positive feedback loop
…gain a new territory of freedom…
E-currency based on cryptographic proof
Attractive to the libertarian viewpoint
Root problem with conventional currency

Vires In Numeris

Vires In Numeris

” It isnโ€™t obvious that the world had to work this way.

But somehow the universe smiles on encryption.โ€

Julian Assange

Nobody yet knows for sure if the universeโ€™s smile is genuine or not.

It is possible that our assumption of mathematical asymmetries is wrong and we find that P actually equals NP, or we find surprisingly quick solutions to specific problems which we currently assume to be hard.

If that should be the case, cryptography as we know it will cease to exist, and the implications would most likely change the world beyond recognition.

โ€œVires in Numerisโ€

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โ€œStrength in Numbersโ€

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Vires in numeris is not only a catchy motto used by bitcoiners.

The realization that there is an unfathomable strength to be found in numbers is a profound one.

Understanding this, and the inversion of existing power balances which it enables changed my view of the world and the future which lies ahead of us.

One direct result of this is the fact that you donโ€™t have to ask anyone for permission to participate in Bitcoin.

There is no page to sign up, no company in charge, no government agency to send application forms to.

Simply generate a large number and you are pretty much good to go.

The central authority of account creation is mathematics.

And God only knows who is in charge of that.

Elliptic curve examples (cc-by-sa Emmanuel Boutet)

Bitcoin is built upon our best understanding of reality.

While there are still many open problems in physics, computer science, and mathematics, we are pretty sure about some things.

That there is an asymmetry between finding solutions and validating the correctness of these solutions is one such thing.

That computation needs energy is another one.

In other words: finding a needle in a haystack is harder than checking if the pointy thing in your hand is indeed a needle or not.

And finding the needle takes work.

The vastness of Bitcoinโ€™s address space is truly mind-boggling.

The number of private keys even more so. It is fascinating how much of our modern world boils down to the improbability of finding a needle in an unfathomably large haystack.

I am now more aware of this fact than ever.

Bitcoin taught me that there is strength in numbers.

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Hoist the Waffels…

Hey Ho, Hoist the Waffels…

The TSMC and his men stoled the mighty chip out of it's bed,
And bound it on it's pcb plate.
The hasrate be ours, and by the hashrate powers,
It's where we'll roam!
Yo Ho... All you miners,
Hoist the waffels high!
Heave ho, traders and profets,
Never shall We die !
Some miners have perished and some are alive,
Others hold the hashrate high...
With the keys to their wallets...
And a pool's fee to pay,
We lay to Crypto's Creed !
Yo, ho hash together,
Hoist the waffels high!
Heave, ho, traders and profets,
Never shall We die !
Yo, Ho hash together,
Hoist the Waffels high!
The hashrate be ours,
Never shall we die !

Source of Inspiration :

“Hoist the Colours” by Hans Zimmer





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Satoshi never imagined industrial-scale mining

“Satoshi never imagined industrial-scale mining

As he explained, when you put incentives out there, people learn how to use those incentives for making money in ways that are nearly impossible to predict. He pointed to bitcoin as a prime example, saying its creator probably never imagined bitcoin’s incentive structure would lead to industrial-scale mining pools.

Satoshi wrote this still in 2008: 

Quote

“At first, most users would run network nodes, but as the network grows beyond a certain point, it would be left more and more to specialists with server farms of specialized hardware. A server farm would 
only need to have one node on the network and the rest of the LAN connects with that one node.”

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1458.msg16906#msg16906

ribuck’s description is spot on.

Pool operators can modify their getwork to take one additional parameter, the address to send your share to.

The easy way for the pool operator would be to wait until the next block is found and divy it up proportionally as:
user’s near-hits/total near-hits from everyone

That would be easier and safer to start up.  It also has the advantage that multiple hits from the same user can be combined into one transaction.  A lot of your hits will usually be from the same people.

The instant gratification way would be to pay a fixed amount for each near-hit immediately, and the operator takes the risk from randomness of having more or less near-hits before a block is found. 

Either way, the user who submits the hit that solves the block should get an extra amount off the top, like 10 BTC.

New users wouldn’t really even need the Bitcoin software.  They could download a miner, create an account on mtgox or mybitcoin, enter their deposit address into the miner and point it at anyone’s pool server.  When the miner says it found something, a while later a few coins show up in their account.

Miner writers better make sure they never false-positive near-hits.  Users will depend on that to check if the pool operator is cheating them.  If the miner wrongly says it found something, users will look in their account, not find anything, and get mad at the pool operator.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1976.msg25119#msg25119

saying its creator probably never imagined bitcoin’s incentive structure would lead to industrial-scale mining pools.

I kinda feel  the same. 

Hashrate Distribution…

Sometimes it scars me thinking if they plan for a 51% attack. All you need is a syndicating in between few big mining farms. I am not sure if is is possible practically.

Actually, Satoshi did predict industrial scale mining he failed predicting pools because he was unaware of the amount of pressure toward pooling in his implementation of PoW based on the worst principle ever, winner-takes-all.

Industrial scale mining farms are not the threat, mining pools are. Satoshi disappeared in the same time that users were starting to complain about their variance and slush was kick starting his pool. He made just one comment (that op has quoted) regarding this issue which is very disappointing by the way as he is just talking about simple technical issues and avoids more sophisticated strategic implications of the proposal. He disappeared few days later, forever.

So, if it is about whether satoshi was kind of a god and predicted everything or not, the answer would be a big NO, Satoshi Nakamoto was an ordinary human being who made a lot of big and small mistakes designing and implementing bitcoin and this is why we should improve it instead of  being stuck with a legend. 

Cyberspace does not belong to legends (neither original ones like Satoshi nor the fake ones like Vitalik Buterin) it belongs to hard working, committed  mathematicians, developers, hackers  and advocates all over the planet. 

But, for the record, failing to predict the industrial scale mining is not in his failure list anyway.

Sometimes it scars me thinking if they plan for a 51% attack. All you need is a syndicating in between few big mining farms. I am not sure if is is possible practically.

I doubt they would plan a 51%, because the price would drop and they would lose their investment. Those pools are interested in bitcoin success.

Industrial scale mining farms are not the threat, mining pools are. Satoshi disappeared in the same time that users were starting to complain about their variance and slush was kick starting his pool. He made just one comment (that op has quoted) regarding this issue which is very disappointing by the way as he is just talking about simple technical issues and avoids more sophisticated strategic implications of the proposal. He disappeared few days later, forever.

So, if it is about whether satoshi was kind of a god and predicted everything or not, the answer would be a big NO, Satoshi Nakamoto was an ordinary human being who made a lot of big and small mistakes designing and implementing bitcoin and this is why we should improve it instead of  being stuck with a legend. 

Satoshi was a genius, because he knew when to disappear.
This is not satoshi’s blockchain. Satoshi’s existence would make bitcoin centralized on him.

As ethereum is centralized on vitalik Buterin. Vitalik’s blockchain.

The solution to those design issues with btc will come from the community. There are some proposals and one day there will be a solution.

Sometime ago I read something about Changing proof of work in a way that asic hardware would become less effective. I believe there are many interesting proposals out there and soon community will have a consensus about one.

Industrial scale mining farms are not the threat, mining pools are. Satoshi disappeared in the same time that users were starting to complain about their variance and slush was kick starting his pool. He made just one comment (that op has quoted) regarding this issue which is very disappointing by the way as he is just talking about simple technical issues and avoids more sophisticated strategic implications of the proposal. He disappeared few days later, forever.

So, if it is about whether satoshi was kind of a god and predicted everything or not, the answer would be a big NO, Satoshi Nakamoto was an ordinary human being who made a lot of big and small mistakes designing and implementing bitcoin and this is why we should improve it instead of  being stuck with a legend. 

The solution to those design issues with btc will come from the community. There are some proposals and one day there will be a solution.

The 51% attack fear mongering by giant mining corporations is unfounded.  if this happened the miners would take a massive financial hit and bitcoin would crash.  It would make no sense to do it  the negatives far outweigh the positives.  The only way is if some mad man, similar to the joker, just wants to watch the world burn and doesn’t care about the money.

How about those forces who do not want the banking system to be decentralized? They don’t care about value of bitcoin coz they have the printed money. 

I doubt they would plan a 51%, because the price would drop and they would lose their investment. Those pools are interested in bitcoin success. This logic make sense.

Cyberspace does not belong to legends 

For context, Slush Pool emerged in November 2010. It was an independent project, but created within the community.
I would say that the problem is when legends center the whole decision-making process. But Bitcoin always had several people contributing in a decentralized way, several projects arose and many thanks to the economic incentives.

The great advantage of truly decentralized projects is that no matter how much a legend is admired, because it has no coercive power to forbid parallel projects or forks, the project can continue independent of its will.

Ie financial incentives hinder future predictions.

It’s totally different from what happens with some projects like EOS or TRON.”

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“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”

Confucius

Diamond with a flaw

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

Albert Einstein

Man of Value

“If you don’t know what you want, you’ll never find it.

If you don’t know what you deserve, you’ll always settle for less.

You will wander aimlessly, uncomfortably numb in your comfort zone, wondering how life has ended up here.

Life starts now, live, love, laugh and let your light shine!”

Rob Liano

Let your light shine

“A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.”

Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations”

Values

“Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.”

Deepak Chopra

Mathematics

“Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value.

The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter.

Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man’s true worth.”

Criss Jami, “Killosophy”

Job from the Heart

“A person that does not value your time will not value your advice.”

Orrin Woodward

Value your time

“Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.”

Rob Liano

Embrace your Values

“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bad times

“I say no wealth is worth my life.”

Homer, “The Iliad”

Life

“But what’s worth more than gold?

Practically everything.

You, for example.

Gold is heavy.

Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all.

Aren’t you worth more than that?”

Terry Pratchett, “Making Money” 

You are worth more than gold

“Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.”

Louis L’Amour, “Education of a Wandering Man”

Knowledge

“ร”, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.”

Roman Payne

Sunlight

“Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.”

Louis L’Amour, “Education of a Wandering Man”

Knowledge

“If life โ€” the craving for which is the very essence of our being โ€” were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.”

Arthur Schopenhauer, “The Vanity of Existence”

Existence

“Our sole purpose on this earth is to add value to others.

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Rob Liano

Sole purpose

“Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.”

John Cage

Curiosity & Awareness

“We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.”

Friedrich Nietzsche, “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”

Virtue

“Maybe you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.

Maybe we enjoy the last minute struggle as it slips through our hands.”

Suraj Sani

Struggle

“Always remember that the minority dictates the prices, and the majority governs the value.”

Naved Abdali

Minority vs. Majority

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The valuation of an asset is relative to the valuations of all other assets.”

Naved Abdali

Valuation of an Asset

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You have ample time to evaluate a business to buy or not to buy.

There is no rush.”

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Evaluate

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Fair Value

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More often, the price they pay is far greater than the actual value.”

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Actual Value

“Watching every tick up and every tick down is just wasting your valuable time.

Do yourself a favor, and pick up a book or two about investing each month.”

Naved Abdali

Pick up a book

“An ounce of gold will always be an ounce of gold regardless of the length of possession.

The short-term value will go up or down, but gold prices will follow the general inflation rate in the long run.”

Naved Abdali

General Inflation Rate

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Emotions & Perception