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Re:What Satoshi Did Not Know (2015) [pdf] on Friday September 04, 2020 @07:30PM (#24379968)
> protocol where miners are the ones to form blocks

Miner's would identify themselves

Re:What Satoshi Did Not Know (2015) [pdf] on Friday September 04, 2020 @05:36PM (#24379124)
Bitcoin is economics.

Proof-of-Work relies on miners investing and competing. Miners that continually invest generally win - and those that do not, die. The stronger the system, the harder for Bitcoin enemies to subvert/takeover the system.

In 2008, miners used CPU's, several years later miners moved to GPU's, several years later miners moved to ASICs, and recently miners moved to data centers.