<div dir="ltr"><div>China is a communist country. It is no secret that all "capitalist" enterprises are essentially State controlled, or at the very least are subject to nationalization should the State deem it necessary. Most ASIC chips are manufactured in China, so they are cheap and accessible to Chinese miners. Electricity is subsidized and essentially free. Cooling is not an issue since large parts of China are mountainous and naturally cool. In short the Chinese miners have HUGE advantages over all other mining operations. This is probably why, between just the top 4 Chinese miners, the People's Republic of China effectively controls 57% of all the Bitcoin being mined.</div><div><br></div><div>The ONLY disadvantage the Chinese miners have in competing with the rest of the world is bandwidth. China has poor connectivity with the rest of the world, and Chinese miners have said that an increase in the block size would be detrimental to them. I say, GOOD! Most of the free world has enough bandwidth to be able to handle larger blocks. We need to take advantage of that fact to get mining out of the centralized control of the Chinese.</div><div><br></div><div>If you're truly worried about larger blocks causing centralization, think about how, by restricting blocksize, you're enabling the Communist Chinese government to maintain centralized control over 57% of the Bitcoin hashing power.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div>--<div><b>James G. Phillips IV</b> <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/113107039501292625391/posts" style="font-size:x-small" target="_blank"><img src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png"></a> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/ergophobe" target="_blank"><img src="http://developer.linkedin.com/sites/default/files/LinkedIn_Logo16px.png"></a></div></div><div><font size="1"><i>"Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals." -- David Ogilvy<br></i></font><div><font size="1"><br></font></div></div><div><font size="1"><img src="http://findicons.com/files/icons/1156/fugue/16/leaf.png"> <em style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;line-height:16px;color:green">This message was created with 100% recycled electrons. Please think twice before printing.</em></font></div></div></div>
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