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Re:Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet by GordonS on Monday March 08, 2021 @02:08PM (#26390091)
Surely proof of work also requires trust in a group of miners, trusting that 51% of them don't collude?

As mining complexity grows, surely this problem is only exasperated, since you need a bigger investment to be able to mine effectively, which would presumably result in an even smaller group of more powerful miners?

Re:Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet by qertoip on Monday March 08, 2021 @03:15PM (#26390900)
So far Bitcoin mining is getting increasingly decentralized in practice - from China to Iran to US to Venezuela.