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125 sats \ 5 replies \ @rafael_xmr 31 Jul \ on: Does Monero have communist principles? AskSN
Was Satoshi Nakamoto a communist? Why did he write "1 CPU = 1 VOTE" inside the Bitcoin Whitepaper?
The idea of "1 CPU = 1 vote" sounds at first glance like something egalitarian, almost democratic in the classical sense. But in reality, it has nothing to do with communism or distributing everything equally.
What Satoshi was trying to avoid was precisely the opposite: the control of the network by a single entity, a single server, or a closed group. Instead of relying on "one person = one vote," which would be easily manipulated, he used computational power as a form of consensus: whoever contributes energy and labor has a voice. But it's not that Satoshi wanted everyone to earn the same, or that everyone had the same power regardless of their stakes, but rather that all power would be concentrated in a single person. In other words, if a government started mining Bitcoin, no matter how large its mining infrastructure, it would have the same vote on the network as John mining at home with his GPU. What this avoids is that the same government with that mining power could manipulate the network.
Maybe I'm wrong, but that's my first reading, maybe some enlightened ones can help us.
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I understand that yes, that's why I called you who have more experience...in my point of view
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You just haven't thought the logic through the end conclusion. PoW mining only works as decentralized consensus insofar as a majority of miners are normal honest people. When specific hardware has an advantage, the mining pool centralizes there creating a situation where whoever controls that hardware controls the consensus.
What you've done in your argument is extrapolate the egalitarian principles of RandomX mining into being equivalent to communism. Then you used the specific real-world instance of communist society, Cuba, to conclude that RandomX is bad. This logic is a non-sequitur, it doesn't follow.
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mmmm....maybe, I think that living under communism for so long has left me a little sick jajajjajajajaja
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