miners
4 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Michael Casey · across every show →
Everything said about miners, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Casey: Bitcoin replaces central intermediaries with community blockchain consensus
“Bitcoin is a solution to that, because it outsources that role, that intermediation of trust, to the entire community. And it finds a, you know, a fascinating, unique instrument that, you know, that is the blockchain and the consensus process through which the…”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Tomaino: Miner control over blockchain networks creates governance friction
“I think mining, like, miners controlling a network has proven to be pretty problematic. And so I think kind of aligning stakeholders and miners and putting them, you know, as one will be important in terms of, you know, progress in making changes to protocols …”
Feb 26, 2019 negative
Dayan: Ethereum storage pricing creates a tragedy of the commons
“So the fact that the miners get payment for storage when the miners actually don't need to store the whole state, and it's the full nodes that, that bear the cost. So this sort of asymmetry between who's bearing the cost, like where the externality is, and lik…”