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by mkirklions 2958 days ago
>It’s not decentralized at all and there are a handful of people thus could destroy it at any time.

Uh you might want to check that.

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The three largest pools combined hold over 50% of the total hashing power, and all are based in China.
Thats the mining pool though. You can join those pools from anywhere.
Ok, wink, because the blockchain I’ll play along and pretend there aren’t at least 12 people that could crash the entire thing one way or another if they wanted to.