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It was only the wind.

Why are the smaller miners owed more?

Bitcoin mining works by compensating miners for their computations that go toward securing the blockchain. It's not supposed to be a socialist "everyone gets money!" welfare system. Why should that compensation be anything but directly proportional to the work contributed? (Not to mention the complete infeasibility of any other scheme.)

Well, a coin *could* be designed were the contribution of each individual could be equal to the blockchain (or whatever other mechanism) security.
In that case, having tons of hardware would not be helpful and thus you would not have "big" and "small" miners. Of course it could not be a hashcash derivative ...
How to design such a coin is hard, it could even be impossible (bizantine generals problem was bypassed by bitcoin in an elegant yet power hungry way using hashcash).

On the other hand, the OP speaks of mining, previously tried to make some money by buying / selling back some crappy domain names, ran some polls with equally crappy ideas ... so he probably is in no way bringing real new and innovative ideas to the cause.
Also putting a 1% tax for himself on the money supply ... lol, much worst than a premine ! (but at least not hard for some motivated group to hard-fork and get rid of it)

Finally someone who gets it. The hard fork idea is a good one. I like this guy but I think a few of us should get together and eliminate his tax should this go live. Not to screw the guy but to prove a point not to fuck with the people who are trying to support you. I would be willing to throw all my hashes at it just to get the point across

Yeah, let's teach this guy a lesson! Ain't nobody gonna make money getting an idea and working to get it off the ground here.
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It was only the wind.
Why are the smaller miners owed more?

Bitcoin mining works by compensating miners for their computations that go toward securing the blockchain. It's not supposed to be a socialist "everyone gets money!" welfare system. Why should that compensation be anything but directly proportional to the work contributed? (Not to mention the complete infeasibility of any other scheme.)

Now that I think about it, I have an answer. The compensation shouldn't be directly proportional to the work contributed because the work isn't the only thing that matters. Would you feel safe using Bitcoin if there was only one miner? No? Even if he had a gazillion TH/s?

Spreading the block rewards wouldn't address the issue that a single miner is in control of the network and can more than easily do a 51%-style attack.

What I mean is, it matters that more than a few people are mining, no matter how powerful they are. The more people mining, the better, even if they are little guys.
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11% of every block goes to Vlad2Vlad.... sure!!!  what could possibly go wrong!!!

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Cryptocurrencies aren't supposed to be a get-rich-quick scheme for miners. Miners exist to secure the blockchain for the currency. Getting that backwards does not sound like a good idea.

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So here's my plan:  I get 1% of mined coins (no premine and no instamine),
lol
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miners get 89% of all mined coins
That's even less than currencies that don't revolve around miners btw.
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and then 10% of all mined coins will be put in either an escrow account or a specific wallet which can be verified by everyone and anyone to show I'm not spending it.  I promise full disclosures and full oversight in any way you guys choose to implant such a watchdog.
I do not follow. This also doesn't sound like much of a decentralized trust-not-required currency (as in, a big reason many of us like bitcoin).

Actually it's both. Miners don't exist if they can't pay their bills so it is about making money WHILE securing the blockchain. It has to be both. The more money miners make the more secure the blockchain can become.
Bitcoin's adjusting difficulty rate minimizes their profits. If bitcoin was about maximizing miner profitability, then the block rate and difficulty rate wouldn't be constantly making it harder.
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Cryptocurrencies aren't supposed to be a get-rich-quick scheme for miners. Miners exist to secure the blockchain for the currency. Getting that backwards does not sound like a good idea.

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So here's my plan:  I get 1% of mined coins (no premine and no instamine),
lol
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miners get 89% of all mined coins
That's even less than currencies that don't revolve around miners btw.
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and then 10% of all mined coins will be put in either an escrow account or a specific wallet which can be verified by everyone and anyone to show I'm not spending it.  I promise full disclosures and full oversight in any way you guys choose to implant such a watchdog.
I do not follow. This also doesn't sound like much of a decentralized trust-not-required currency (as in, a big reason many of us like bitcoin).

Actually it's both. Miners don't exist if they can't pay their bills so it is about making money WHILE securing the blockchain. It has to be both. The more money miners make the more secure the blockchain can become.
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I promised you guys at least a 3 day heads up warning for any coin I launch and here it is.

The coin will be Nuggets (The first true Miners' Coin) and I am designing it from the ground up, with lots of feedback from many miners and before all else, with the average, struggling miner in mind.

Every coin out there focuses on everything and everyone else but none out the miner first - the lifeblood of any successful coin - yet the masses - the large majority of miners get no real specific edge or benefit for their efforts and contributions.

I wanna change all that!

Nuggets will have no premine, no instamine (the first true fair launch per the people's specs and demands, and not my own desires and so fair that Miners even chose the name no sneak launch, as promised a minimum 3 days heads up for hackers to kill the coin if this is another CrapCoin) and I will add a new feature [I learned in Economics and Finance back in College years ago) never before seen or heard of, called the VGB protocol, which I will detail right before launch so prevent theft before my own launch.

On a % basis the VGB Protocol will favor and more generously reward the smaller miner - the smaller the miner the nicer and more rewarding the benefit.  It will also help the solo miner but also the pool miner.

The higher the difficulty goes - this new, never thought of feature (the VGB protocol) will ensure and guarantee that mining a high difficulty coin will not result in a boring flatline effect, which many coins are now plagued by and as the masses come in, mining will become more boring and less and less rewarding - so this VGB protocol will greatly help with this fundamental flaw in all coins out there right now. 

I guess it took an Economist to see what very smart computer guys, programmers and hackers missed all this time.  lol.

This new VGB feature will make mining more interesting, unpredictable (in a good way) and more fun and exciting for everyone - but especially for the average and smaller miners.

It will be fully inclusive - meaning big miners will be happy to mine it while small miners will be even happier to mine it.   It's a win-win coin for everyone involved.

The distribution of the coin which not all may love this particular idea will be like this, and this is where you have to give me a bit of trust, because this is also meant and designed with the smaller miner in mind although once again, this is a democratic coin and i promise nobody will be excluded. 

In discussing ways to level the playing field, "Zas" suggested rewarding all miners with 10% of the mined coins straight across but that would be impossible to code and it's ripe for abuse but I love the idea so much that I can't let it go.

So here's my plan:  I get 1% of mined coins (no premine and no instamine), miners get 89% of all mined coins and then 10% of all mined coins will be put in either an escrow account or a specific wallet which can be verified by everyone and anyone to show I'm not spending it.  I promise full disclosures and full oversight in any way you guys choose to implant such a watchdog.

Once we can all come to some fair understanding I will then distribute ALL of those coins, every penny back to the miners.  So then the miners get 99% of these coins but the idea is that this 10% distribution will be a flat reward which means that even the big miners get a reward but the same exact (flat) reward will be given to the small and smallest miners so on a % basis, relatively speaking, the small miners will feel a much greater benefit.

The idea is to help newbies and small guys who can't afford to keep buying hardware - this 10% reward, combined with my VGB Protocol, should really help the fast majority of miners, especially the smaller struggling miners, before the masses of people come online probably next year and you all lose the control you none possess to make a coin especially for yourselves. 

This is a win-win for everyone and I will do anything it takes to show people this is not a pump and dump.  I will do all I can to put the power and the reward system in the hands of the miners. 

This is the first coin which gives a damn about this alt community and so this coin is made specifically with the miners in mind, before all else and if it succeeds many small miners should see immediate and wonderfully uplifting benefits which will help many of you reach the next level of income and revenues. 

Good luck guys!

Let me guess. VGB is some sort of variability to the payout?
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lol, calling yourself an Economist just puts shame to the name, please don't use it and ruin the word until you have proven your predictions.
NWO
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You keep begging third party devs( mainly junk coin developers) to build your coin for you,

what is the realistic longevity for this coin?

Hire them on full time or just contract basis for each update?

Which developer did you end up going with?



Begging?

When you pay someone to do something it's not begging.

When you go to a restaurant and order a steak and then pay for it would you like it if some guy outside told people you were in there begging for food?  Hardly!

These are not junk developers.  They have experience launching other coins and they're actually the most expensive here.  I could have gone with the cheaper guys but I thought I'd get more from going with someone with integrity and experience.

The longevity depends on the adoption rate and if people like what the coin offers.  I'm looking at it long term, for years to come of the govt allows it that long.

Please don't tell me it was Hazard... As I'm sure it was you who messaged him a few days back.
legendary
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CPU Web Mining 🕸️ on webmining.io

Why are the smaller miners owed more?

Bitcoin mining works by compensating miners for their computations that go toward securing the blockchain. It's not supposed to be a socialist "everyone gets money!" welfare system. Why should that compensation be anything but directly proportional to the work contributed? (Not to mention the complete infeasibility of any other scheme.)

Well, a coin *could* be designed were the contribution of each individual could be equal to the blockchain (or whatever other mechanism) security.
In that case, having tons of hardware would not be helpful and thus you would not have "big" and "small" miners. Of course it could not be a hashcash derivative ...
How to design such a coin is hard, it could even be impossible (bizantine generals problem was bypassed by bitcoin in an elegant yet power hungry way using hashcash).

On the other hand, the OP speaks of mining, previously tried to make some money by buying / selling back some crappy domain names, ran some polls with equally crappy ideas ... so he probably is in no way bringing real new and innovative ideas to the cause.
Also putting a 1% tax for himself on the money supply ... lol, much worst than a premine ! (but at least not hard for some motivated group to hard-fork and get rid of it)

Finally someone who gets it. The hard fork idea is a good one. I like this guy but I think a few of us should get together and eliminate his tax should this go live. Not to screw the guy but to prove a point not to fuck with the people who are trying to support you. I would be willing to throw all my hashes at it just to get the point across
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Why are the smaller miners owed more?

Bitcoin mining works by compensating miners for their computations that go toward securing the blockchain. It's not supposed to be a socialist "everyone gets money!" welfare system. Why should that compensation be anything but directly proportional to the work contributed? (Not to mention the complete infeasibility of any other scheme.)

Well, a coin *could* be designed were the contribution of each individual could be equal to the blockchain (or whatever other mechanism) security.
In that case, having tons of hardware would not be helpful and thus you would not have "big" and "small" miners. Of course it could not be a hashcash derivative ...
How to design such a coin is hard, it could even be impossible (bizantine generals problem was bypassed by bitcoin in an elegant yet power hungry way using hashcash).

On the other hand, the OP speaks of mining, previously tried to make some money by buying / selling back some crappy domain names, ran some polls with equally crappy ideas ... so he probably is in no way bringing real new and innovative ideas to the cause.
Also putting a 1% tax for himself on the money supply ... lol, much worst than a premine ! (but at least not hard for some motivated group to hard-fork and get rid of it)
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are you guys just messing with us or do you seriously not understand these issues...? we would be happy to explain the problems but it seems like you guys just don't care to hear the truth
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Why are the smaller miners owed more?

Bitcoin mining works by compensating miners for their computations that go toward securing the blockchain. It's not supposed to be a socialist "everyone gets money!" welfare system. Why should that compensation be anything but directly proportional to the work contributed? (Not to mention the complete infeasibility of any other scheme.)

Now that I think about it, I have an answer. The compensation shouldn't be directly proportional to the work contributed because the work isn't the only thing that matters. Would you feel safe using Bitcoin if there was only one miner? No? Even if he had a gazillion TH/s?

Spreading the block rewards wouldn't address the issue that a single miner is in control of the network and can more than easily do a 51%-style attack.
I think our words are falling on deaf ears my friend. Either that or there is a SEVERE lack of understanding the point of these coins or how they work...
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Why are the smaller miners owed more?

Bitcoin mining works by compensating miners for their computations that go toward securing the blockchain. It's not supposed to be a socialist "everyone gets money!" welfare system. Why should that compensation be anything but directly proportional to the work contributed? (Not to mention the complete infeasibility of any other scheme.)

Now that I think about it, I have an answer. The compensation shouldn't be directly proportional to the work contributed because the work isn't the only thing that matters. Would you feel safe using Bitcoin if there was only one miner? No? Even if he had a gazillion TH/s?

Spreading the block rewards wouldn't address the issue that a single miner is in control of the network and can more than easily do a 51%-style attack.
legendary
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Yeah I believe he is not the type that is looking to pump and dump.  As for truly wanting to help the little guy, that I am not 100% on yet, as he has been trying all kinds of ideas which he thinks might draw a lot of people.  Let's not forget his first few ideas, such as the Catholic Coin, which he himself said he wanted as he believed it would draw in a lot of Catholic miners to come mine for him.  He is trying to promote the coin as the "Miner's" coin, yet almost every coin the miners get 100% of the coins.  So how are we supposed to see getting less as a benefit to miners everywhere.  I think he means well with his idea of handing out bonuses to the little guys, but since he has already shown a lack of even the most basic concepts, I don't think he realises how easy it would be for people to "trick" the system into giving them multiple bonuses.  I still want to hear his idea of how his VGB protocol will automatically filter things like this out.  

I do like the guy though.  But I have no idea why.

I'm willing to bet he is just one of the small fish miners he wants to help, which is fine, but why should we have to help support small miners that don't want to invest their own money into rigs to compete with those of us that have tens of thousands of dollars invested? I see no point in paying for my equipment and electricity if I have to share it with other people automatically. I don't mind voluntarily donating to a pool I'm using. However, when a cut is automatically taken out of EVERY block just to be handed out to people who don't want to risk their own money buying proper equipment, as well as a cut going to the person who hired someone to write code for him...that I have a problem with. Unless you want to pay 11% of my electricity and GPU costs, I see no reason to give you 11% of my mining rewards.

That is just the tip of the iceberg, though. The centralized, controlled by one person wallet that is given to these small miners is a whole different (and substantially the bigger of the two) issue in itself

Yeah, cause those big GPU farms totally don't make a gazillion dollars in profit. You act like everyone has tens of thousands of dollars to invest into mining, and they just choose not to.

Why are the smaller miners owed more?

Bitcoin mining works by compensating miners for their computations that go toward securing the blockchain. It's not supposed to be a socialist "everyone gets money!" welfare system. Why should that compensation be anything but directly proportional to the work contributed? (Not to mention the complete infeasibility of any other scheme.)

Now that I think about it, I have an answer. The compensation shouldn't be directly proportional to the work contributed because the work isn't the only thing that matters. Would you feel safe using Bitcoin if there was only one miner? No? Even if he had a gazillion TH/s?

Then it would be centralized with one person controlling all new coins. Your point was a bad one just let it go. Seriously how hard is this to understand...?
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Why are the smaller miners owed more?

Bitcoin mining works by compensating miners for their computations that go toward securing the blockchain. It's not supposed to be a socialist "everyone gets money!" welfare system. Why should that compensation be anything but directly proportional to the work contributed? (Not to mention the complete infeasibility of any other scheme.)

They aren't owed more. I just hate the way the rich always get richer, and the poor get poorer.

I don't think the currency is a feasible place to address that.
legendary
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Yeah, cause those big GPU farms totally don't make a gazillion dollars in profit. You act like everyone has tens of thousands of dollars to invest into mining, and they just choose not to.

The big GPU farms all fight each other for less coins per person than the few people CPU mining a coin politely together, none of them trying to rape the thing with a GPU, each get of some coin (like Tenebrix, or Fairbrix, or...) they hope the people with the big GPU farms won't remember or care about for a year or so like happened with BBQcoin...

The people who let one CPU core quietly mine BBQcoin for a year after some big GPU farm bully claimed to have killed it probably made more money that year per CPU core than they would have per GPU, if they had any GPUs, on some coin like Litecoin that all the big GPU people fight for crumbs of.

-MarkM-
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Might as well just call it CommunismCoin at that point
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Yeah I believe he is not the type that is looking to pump and dump.  As for truly wanting to help the little guy, that I am not 100% on yet, as he has been trying all kinds of ideas which he thinks might draw a lot of people.  Let's not forget his first few ideas, such as the Catholic Coin, which he himself said he wanted as he believed it would draw in a lot of Catholic miners to come mine for him.  He is trying to promote the coin as the "Miner's" coin, yet almost every coin the miners get 100% of the coins.  So how are we supposed to see getting less as a benefit to miners everywhere.  I think he means well with his idea of handing out bonuses to the little guys, but since he has already shown a lack of even the most basic concepts, I don't think he realises how easy it would be for people to "trick" the system into giving them multiple bonuses.  I still want to hear his idea of how his VGB protocol will automatically filter things like this out.  

I do like the guy though.  But I have no idea why.

I'm willing to bet he is just one of the small fish miners he wants to help, which is fine, but why should we have to help support small miners that don't want to invest their own money into rigs to compete with those of us that have tens of thousands of dollars invested? I see no point in paying for my equipment and electricity if I have to share it with other people automatically. I don't mind voluntarily donating to a pool I'm using. However, when a cut is automatically taken out of EVERY block just to be handed out to people who don't want to risk their own money buying proper equipment, as well as a cut going to the person who hired someone to write code for him...that I have a problem with. Unless you want to pay 11% of my electricity and GPU costs, I see no reason to give you 11% of my mining rewards.

That is just the tip of the iceberg, though. The centralized, controlled by one person wallet that is given to these small miners is a whole different (and substantially the bigger of the two) issue in itself

Yeah, cause those big GPU farms totally don't make a gazillion dollars in profit. You act like everyone has tens of thousands of dollars to invest into mining, and they just choose not to.

Not to be rude, but that's not my problem. I shouldn't have to pay 11% to them regardless of their reasons. My point is that people like me who DO have tens of thousands in equipment are going to avoid this like the plague. May as well make it CPU mining only because anyone with any real hashpower isn't going to give 11% away for free
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Yeah I believe he is not the type that is looking to pump and dump.  As for truly wanting to help the little guy, that I am not 100% on yet, as he has been trying all kinds of ideas which he thinks might draw a lot of people.  Let's not forget his first few ideas, such as the Catholic Coin, which he himself said he wanted as he believed it would draw in a lot of Catholic miners to come mine for him.  He is trying to promote the coin as the "Miner's" coin, yet almost every coin the miners get 100% of the coins.  So how are we supposed to see getting less as a benefit to miners everywhere.  I think he means well with his idea of handing out bonuses to the little guys, but since he has already shown a lack of even the most basic concepts, I don't think he realises how easy it would be for people to "trick" the system into giving them multiple bonuses.  I still want to hear his idea of how his VGB protocol will automatically filter things like this out.  

I do like the guy though.  But I have no idea why.

I'm willing to bet he is just one of the small fish miners he wants to help, which is fine, but why should we have to help support small miners that don't want to invest their own money into rigs to compete with those of us that have tens of thousands of dollars invested? I see no point in paying for my equipment and electricity if I have to share it with other people automatically. I don't mind voluntarily donating to a pool I'm using. However, when a cut is automatically taken out of EVERY block just to be handed out to people who don't want to risk their own money buying proper equipment, as well as a cut going to the person who hired someone to write code for him...that I have a problem with. Unless you want to pay 11% of my electricity and GPU costs, I see no reason to give you 11% of my mining rewards.

That is just the tip of the iceberg, though. The centralized, controlled by one person wallet that is given to these small miners is a whole different (and substantially the bigger of the two) issue in itself

Yeah, cause those big GPU farms totally don't make a gazillion dollars in profit. You act like everyone has tens of thousands of dollars to invest into mining, and they just choose not to.

Why are the smaller miners owed more?

Bitcoin mining works by compensating miners for their computations that go toward securing the blockchain. It's not supposed to be a socialist "everyone gets money!" welfare system. Why should that compensation be anything but directly proportional to the work contributed? (Not to mention the complete infeasibility of any other scheme.)
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Help me with just the idea of how to distribute this 10% to the miners in a fair way

Redistributive coins have never worked in RL or in crypto. I'd like to say "nice idea, thanks for trying", but it's not.
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