I'm new to crypto currency. I expected that it all was bases on p2p. But I can't see much p2p in connection with the mining. Only some few pools make all the coins.
The first versions of PascalCoin had a build in CPU miner so all the running wallets was mining. It was actually p2p. I really wonder why this feature first was disabled and later removed completely. I don't know if Pascal Lite ever had this miner
I think it would be much better to let the common users do the mining and to keep the pools out. That's of course just my opinion. But I really don't like that a lot of money and electricity is wasted on pool mining. Could we somehow change the Proof of Work to something more equal and lesser wastefull?
Cpu mining is usually only a viable option at the very beginning of a coin . Gpuminers will be build and they are often dozens of times more powerful than cpumining. Gpu miners weren´t probably programmed/ready in the beginning of Pascalcoin but they were when PascalLite was launched, naturally.
The advantage of pools is that it reduces ones variance. If you were to mine with just one gpu for example a coin with a high global hashrate, you´d have to be very lucky to find a block and to make any coins at all. Lets say that with one gpu you´d find 1 block/week on average. It would be very possible for you to mine for a couple of months without getting rewarded at all as you might not find a block. When you mine with a pool you get some coins all the time as the pools high hashrate finds blocks a plenty and the rewards are shared among the miners.
If you want to earn coins without spending alot of electricity you might be interested in looking into staking, where you stake coins to make more coins. Ethereum is moving to proof-of-stake for example...
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