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by sparkie
2965 days ago
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Extremely large blocks will require the big miners to all host their servers in a ULLDMA-like facility, because low latency block propagation gives them the advantage. Anyone not in the club will suffer high-latency block propagation which will put them at a disadvantage to the other players who are all hosted in the same physical location. The result is that a single-point of failure in the system will come not from the concentration of mining power, but the concentration of block-propagating servers accounting for the majority of mining power. There are obvious questions like who will run such facility, who will be able to join, at what price, and under what jurisdiction will it be. If the club is run collectively by the largest miners, they would not be incentivized to let any new competition join the club as it would collectively harm the existing members who have the advantage. Also, in existing trading markets, we've seen that there's an "outside club" that can pay to host servers in these facilities, but there's still an "inside club", who get the data earlier than the outside club. (https://www.cnbc.com/id/100809395) |
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