Block Quote: 823789

'There would be many smaller zombie farms that are not big enough to overproof-of-worker the network, and they could still make money by generating bitcoins. The smaller farms are then the "honest nodes". (I need a better term than "honest") The more smaller farms resort to generating bitcoins, the higher the bar gets to overproof-of-worker the network, making larger farms also too small to overproof-of-worker it so that they may as well generate bitcoins too. According to the "long tail" theory, the small, medium and merely large farms put together should add up to a lot more than the biggest zombie farm.' November 3, 2008 - Satoshi Nakamoto