[Bitcoin-development] Mining centralization pressure from non-uniform propagation speed

Mike Hearn mike at plan99.net
Fri Jun 12 18:24:50 UTC 2015


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> are only connected to each other through a slow 2 Mbit/s link.
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That's very slow indeed. For comparison, plain old 3G connections routinely
cruise around 7-8 Mbit/sec.

So this simulation is assuming a speed dramatically worse than a mobile
phone can get!
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