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0 pointsMWil12y ago0 comments

can you explain the disadvantages of allowing asic mining?

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haakon12y ago· 1 in thread

Not everybody has ASICs, so it limits the number of people who can compete. In theory, this could create a centralisation effect. In practice, that seems to happen anyway due to mining pools.

verroq12y ago

You can always use P2Pool (http://whatisp2pool.com). Decentralised mining.

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