RandomX has nothing to do with centralization. Exact opposite in fact for mining. How many people own CPUs vs ASICs? The ubiquity can't be beat.

If you argue that it is easier to attack using CPUs, that is a different argument. But it is also easier to bring more CPUs online from honest actors to defend or pushback against an attack as well. Exact opposite for ASICs.

Only two pools, AntPool and Foundry, make up more than 55% of the mining hashpower alone. Those miners are using their nodes. So Bitcoin has it's own centralization issues to work on as well.

I still don't get it. If someone has 1 XMR and wants to send it to someone he just does it. 1XMR=1XMR in all the cases. A hard fork only fixes some things. If you don't update your wallet and the node you're using isn't updated you stay on the same old version. I don't understand why a hardfork would change the value

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Yes, but why has no state actor started to utilize this, given the current global conflicts?

I am asking what is the bad thing about the hardfork?

That's not what I said. You're putting words in my mouth. Reread what I said.

All good. Not expecting to change someone mind who is dug in. I do this mostly for anyone reading thru these threads that is open to have another opinion to consider.

Will probably never get honest discussion from these guys. It does happen though and when it does it's great.

Dan is troll. But like Shinobubu, if one draws them out they have something useful to say every a quarter moon or so.

Straight to insults. Sure sign of a secure position.

FOSS and permissionlessness is all that matters. Anyone has the ability to exit by selling, swapping, or forking and no one can stop them. All funding that pushes Monero forward is by community support and all voluntary. There is no dev tax or premine.

Inability to hardfork, just like ability to upgrade, is a gift and a curse with it's own unique trade offs. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

If you want to talk centralization include all inconvenient aspects of it. BTC is centralized via a handful of Bitcoin Core developers/maintainers and the company Blockstream. That's why Blockstream pet projects like Lightning and Liquid are quickly given the greenlight and any other ideas outside their cabal flounder. Even BCH is better decentralized by node software and CHIP upgrade proposals in practice.

X5 is pretty recent, and research is underway to make it as profitable as any other CPU and remove its advantage. X5 happens to be using specific chipset technology that is only maginally better than a desktop cpus. Its an arms race between 1 cpu 1 vote, as satoshi envisioned and manufacturers trying to inch out an extra buck. It's not really an Asic by the way. Its an optimized series of desktop CPU's. A very dense desktop/server with regular archeture and instruction sets at the processor level. You could run regular software on them. Asics are very different, they only hash 256.

Compared to Bitcoin, the X5 outlier is an incredibly small portion of hash. Most hash is provided by regular people, as satoshi intended. Bitcoin has given up on small miners. Bitcoin has centralized around a few pools and companies and power grids. The whole point of Bitcoin is to be independant from governments, if the majority of security hash is provoded by government infrastructure and not anomymous every day users indistiguishable from anyonenelse using a computer, it can and will eventually be censored. It might take decades, but the difference between home gun ownership and keeping all your guns in a local depot, should be obvious.

You are scared of hardforks, but hardforks for the right reasons are a good thing. Even bitcoin will have to hardfork one day for Quantum resistance. Hardforks for bad reasons just mean one will win and become stronger. Several side monero's have already forked.

Forking is peace.

Well, you've finally said more than two snarky words about your point, at least

And what if they can? What can the devs can do with that ability?

So monero is decentralized and this is a bad thing.

Not only that, but not understanding why centralization is a good thing, is poor design.

Right.....

Or do you mean, the fact hard forks are a centralized decision, is the weakness. (The fact the team can decide to hard fork)

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