pretty sure the stated plan is to balance the hashrate between a group of pools..
Well, that's my point. That's the plan, but it hasn't happened with the first 2 TH/s, so what, pray tell, will make it happen with the next 10TH/s? He's got a working pool and shareholders wanting an ROI, if BTCGuild works, there's no incentive to contact any other pool ops. Maybe he's working on it. No, let me rephrase that,
hopefully he's working on it.
I just don't want this to be Deepbit circa Spring-Summer 2011 version 2. We had about ten threads a day on a conspiracy roll about how Deepbit was double-spending.
On the bright side, BTC Guild should not be in danger of hitting 51% even if all 12 TH/s is pointed at it. The network pre-ASICMINER was ~25 TH/s. With ASICMINER at 12, it would be 37 TH/s. Pre-ASICMINER BTC Guild speed was 4 TH/s, which would put us at 16 out of 37 assuming all speed was pointed at and kept on BTC Guild. While it's "close", it's still missing 3 TH/s (a relatively HUGE amount of hashing power).
It's 43%, which is a high amount, and certainly a number I'd prefer to stay under (too much of an attack target), but given the size of the network these days, it's far off from the time that Deepbit actually had >51%.
