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To simplify the math, let's say a pleb miner does 1 TH/s. The ATH of hashpower according to mempool is ~700 EH/s. There are 1,000,000 TH in an EH.
So we'd need ~700,000,000 pleb miners for plebs to gain a majority of hashpower.
While that's a heck of a lot of plebs (10% of everyone of earth), and it's not like industrial miners won't continue to increase hashing, that's fewer plebs than I thought. I was expecting to need more pleb miners than there are people on earth.
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421 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonb 11 Aug
Superheat advertises that their water heater will mine 68TH/s, which would bring that number down SIGNIFICANTLY. Integrating mining into water heating and HVAC seems to be the solution to me. Hashing2Heating has come up with some amazing ideas for making this happen.
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Thanks for sharing those links
heating water heating hvac yes!
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Everybody just needs to do their part
Edit: this makes me think it might be neat to update my daily mining comments to include average hash rate for the last 24 hours…
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when the creator of bitaxe was on a pod i listened to, he mentioned an interesting benchmark of a million bitaxes is about 1 EH/s, which would mean a bitaxe is finding a block about every 4 days at current network hashrate.
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700 million 1TH pleb miners Or 70 million 10TH space heaters Or 7 Million Freaks with 100TH
So imagine each group gets to a third of what it takes to gain majority hashpower.
233 Million 1TH solo miners 23 million 10 TH space heaters 2.4 million freaks with 100TH
It'll be interesting to see what block comes out with.....
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121 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 11 Aug
I think they're a good start into mining, but like others have said 1x S19 equals about 20 bitaxes.
Hopefully new entrants in the mining space will continue to develop low cost machines for plebs to compete. The main thing IMO is taking market share from bitmain. Bitaxes use their ASIC chips.
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I wonder if over time if Bitaxe will become more powerful to where it is generating 7,000 EH/s... Could this be in the realm of possibilities?
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1 billion pleb miners!
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