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Interest and concern extends far beyond arcane online communities. Motives vary.</p> <div style="text-align:left;"> <div style="width: 350px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150327141730/http://cryptojunky.com/blog/2013/03/26/absolute-beginners-guide-to-gpu-mining-bitcoin/" target="_blank"><img style="border:2px solid #000000;margin-top:1px;margin-bottom:1px;" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150327141730im_/https://i0.wp.com/cryptojunky.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/BitcoinMining.png" alt="screenshot of currency miner" width="340"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Mining with Windows 7</p></div> </div> <h2>Decentralized and anonymous</h2> <p>There are two conceptual pillars of trust that uphold bitcoin as being superior to fiat currency. The first is <b>decentralization</b>.</p> <p>The fiat currency of reference is primarily the US dollar, for the time being. Why? Because the $US is the world’s reserve currency, for now. If Germany weren’t part of the EU, if Japan weren’t still in its lost decade and England weren’t so afflicted with problems, the Deutsche mark, Yen or British Pound Sterling would be attractive alternatives to the $US as a <strong>fungible</strong>, stable store of value. As ideological (not market) confidence in the $US has diminished, the appeal of an apolitical, modern alternative increases. I won’t go off on a tangent as to why a currency printed by the U.S. Treasury in support of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy isn’t as highly esteemed as it was in the past. Obviously the $US dollar is a highly centralized currency.</p> <p>The second conceptual pillar of bitcoin is <b>anonymity</b>. US dollars held as cash will be anonymous until one wants to use them for exchange for commercial transactions of size. Bitcoin has some anonymity short comings, too, but there <strong><em>may</em></strong> be tractable remedies.</p> <h3 style="text-align:left;">Centralization of bitcoin</h3> <p style="text-align:left;">All markets are game theoretic. Bitcoin is more transparently so. I really wish we could ask Professor John Nash what he thinks of bitcoin! Nash actually wrote a pleasant, accessible article about bitcoin-like currencies a few years ago.</p> <p style="text-align:left;">I mention game theory because bitcoin’s most acute concern now is loss of decentralization. It is due to the documented, persistent existence of a 51% majority mining pool controlled by gHash.io. gHash is owned and operated by a private entity, cex.io. gHash’s market dominant behavior was noted in March 2014, but the situation was transient, unlike now. Monopolists, <b><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150327141730/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2227.0;all" target="_blank">and cartels</a></b>, can assert control as a function of mining power. See <b><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150327141730/http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/06/16/how-a-mining-monopoly-can-attack-bitcoin/">How a mining monopoly can attack bitcoin</a></b> for a chart of strategies that mining pools can pursue as a function of hash power. It was recommended by Ed Felten in his post, <strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150327141730/https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/bitcoin-mining-now-dominated-by-one-pool/">Bitcoin mining now dominated by one pool</a></strong>.</p> <h3>Production and transaction costs</h3> <p>In theory, bitcoin is a perfectly smooth, zero transaction cost medium of exchange. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150327141730/https://myindigolives.wordpress.com/2014/06/17/just-a-little-bit-more-bitcoin-trouble/#more-2399" class="more-link">(more…)</a></p> </div> <div class="meta"> Published in: <ul class="post-categories"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150327141730/https://myindigolives.wordpress.com/category/economic-sciences/" rel="category tag">Economic Sciences</a></li></ul> on June 17, 2014 at 12:41 pm  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150327141730/https://myindigolives.wordpress.com/2014/06/17/just-a-little-bit-more-bitcoin-trouble/#respond" title="Comment on Just a Little Bit More Bitcoin Trouble">Leave a Comment</a>   <br/> Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150327141730/https://myindigolives.wordpress.com/tag/bitcoin/" rel="tag">bitcoin</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150327141730/https://myindigolives.wordpress.com/tag/currency/" rel="tag">currency</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150327141730/https://myindigolives.wordpress.com/tag/monopoly/" rel="tag">monopoly</a><br/></div> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150327141730im_/https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/quentin/images/printer.gif" width="102" height="27" class="pmark" alt=" "/> </div> <div class="navigation"> <div class="alignleft"></div> <div class="alignright"></div> </div> </div> <div id="menu"> <ul> <li id="gravatar-3" class="widget widget_gravatar"><h2 class="widgettitle">Collecting the Oinkworthy</h2> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150327141730/http://gravatar.com/ellieaskswhy/"><img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150327141730im_/https://2.gravatar.com/avatar/8cce7b70d30f42045bc6c8569f5549e2?s=96&d=wavatar&r=G" class="avatar avatar-96 grav-widget-center" height="96" width="96" style="display: block; margin: 0 auto;"/></a></p> </li> <li id="categories-2" class="widget widget_categories"><h2 class="widgettitle">Topics</h2> <select name="cat" id="cat" class="postform"> <option value="-1">Select Category</option> <option class="level-0" value="256">About  (1)</option> <option class="level-0" value="999">Curiosities  (15)</option> <option class="level-1" value="7697053">   Multimedia Fun  (5)</option> <option class="level-1" value="32683189">   Text Non-analytics  (6)</option> <option class="level-0" value="7932280">Economic Sciences  (8)</option> <option class="level-0" value="2054">Law  (3)</option> <option class="level-0" value="47237002">Mathematics and Statistical Analysis  (6)</option> <option class="level-1" value="942203">   Data Analytics  (1)</option> <option class="level-0" value="324881">Natural Sciences  (9)</option> <option class="level-1" value="471163">   Human Biology  (2)</option> <option class="level-0" value="199121">Physical Sciences  (3)</option> <option class="level-0" value="23195">Pigs  (5)</option> <option class="level-0" value="215401">Political Sciences  (5)</option> <option class="level-0" value="1314852">ProTips  (3)</option> <option class="level-0" value="2964">Second Life  (5)</option> <option class="level-1" value="17034">   Viewers  (2)</option> <option class="level-0" value="34301153">Secured Access  (2)</option> <option class="level-0" value="801">Security  (20)</option> <option class="level-1" value="4843">   Hacks  (4)</option> <option class="level-1" value="40461">   Social Network  (3)</option> <option class="level-0" value="49818">Social Media  (20)</option> <option class="level-0" value="20727">Social Sciences  (1)</option> <option class="level-0" value="36216402">Tech Science and Innovation  (13)</option> <option class="level-1" value="262">   Computing  (2)</option> <option class="level-0" value="44111">Visualization  (10)</option> <option class="level-1" value="33416823">   Historical Progress  (4)</option> <option class="level-1" value="9719">   Process  (3)</option> <option class="level-0" value="4400293">Web Developments  (14)</option> </select> <script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ var dropdown = document.getElementById("cat"); function onCatChange() { if ( dropdown.options[dropdown.selectedIndex].value > 0 ) { location.href = "https://web.archive.org/web/20150327141730/https://myindigolives.wordpress.com/?cat="+dropdown.options[dropdown.selectedIndex].value; } } dropdown.onchange = onCatChange; /* ]]> */ </script> </li> <li id="linkcat-1356" class="widget widget_links"><h2 class="widgettitle">Blogroll</h2> <ul class="xoxo blogroll"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150327141730/http://dicook.github.io/" rel="colleague" title="For the love of plotting data! 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