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sommerfeld | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Difficulty going down makes the network easier to attack. Nothing is without consequences. We cannot go back to 2013 pre-asic difficulties and survive.
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mrecheese 🧀 | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yeah I wasn't thinking that all the way through. It might be okay if it wasn't possible to just fire up all that hash rate again.
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sommerfeld | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Even if possible, no one would do it out of altruism. The most likely scenario would be someone doing it to attack
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mrecheese 🧀 | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 So back to the conclusion that mass pleb mining adoption is a good thing. 2kW per day per pleb will probably do the trick. Maybe 10 bucks a month at today's rates. By rough math, 50 plebs will out-hash an S21. That's about 4 ASIC chips per pleb. 

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