sure, they will go after those mkts too. but, imo, smartphones is the Big Kahuna. that is where the greatest money to be had lies.
remember, those OEM's that understand Bitcoin want to grab the majority of mkt share in developing nations by offering severe discounts to new previously unbanked customers. get the phone into their hands, lock them in, and worry about significant monetization later. the only way to do this, in the 21 model of mining chips, is to make the smartphones hash as a payback. whether mining "on it's own" will be profitable or not, it's hard to tell. but it could be with enough efficiency in the chip, assuming customers will attempt to pass on charging costs to "others", and coordinating the hashing power to generate blocks. either way, i don't think that's the main thrust. they want to get Satoshi's onto ppl's phones so as to allow the phones to "negotiate" micropayments for all sorts of unimaginable things like parking, fast lanes on hwys, who knows. the OEM's will have one huge coordinated network to which they can sell all sorts of other products and services as well. it's also their stated objective to decentralize mining which i think is a worthy goal even if it means they lose money on it. i've seeing all sorts of crying about "centralization" as a result. that's ridiculous. who honestly thinks that bringing on millions, if not billions, of new individual miners into the economy will do that? do you honestly think the #pools we have now will stay constant and just absorb all this new value? no way. as many new pools will crop up as device manufacturers who are willing to do this. in fact, each OEM should set up their own pool if they want to maximize the gain. it's easy. i ran my own sort of pool back when i was pointing 15 or so of my own miners at my stratum solo mining server. and i'm not a geek or CS. it was relatively easy. all sorts of new pool operators are going to come out of the woodwork to take any outsourcing that might occur. why not? free money in fees for easy work. no, we are going to see a mushrooming of the absolute #pools as well as a spreading out of the distribution into a much more decentralized piechart than we've already seen.
there will be also many ppl here in developed nations who will want these mining phones. esp with all the free electricity we have access to.
if you haven't listened to the audio dropt posted above, you should. it highlights and expands on many of the things i have been saying about this.
What are you smoking? You forget what proof of work IS. It's proof of burn of electricity. You cannot earn more in the long term, than the value of the electricity you burned. How much electricity can a smartphone burn?
Charging a smartphone costs a whopping 41 cents PER YEAR. Nobody gives a shit about those pennies, and even less about 25% of those pennies. Not even the poorest people in Africa, with free power and 10 smartphones, can earn anything close to a worthwhile return.
And that's assuming they have free power! Maybe shop owners NOW don't mind if people charge their phones, but what happens when their shop is filled with freeloaders who will just steal power and not buy anything? Of course they're going to cut off the free power.
I really can't believe people are falling for this bullshit.
you sound angry. what are you, a Monero holder or something? thinking you're smarter than the wealth of talented minds in the 21 camp is what i'd consider "smoking". did you read anything i said above? it could, in fact, be a loss leader. but getting a majority share of a known burgeoning market that will leapfrog the pc and laptop mkt is hugely valuable. otoh, if they indeed have worked out the power reqs, which is what i think they mean when they referred to power scaling per device, then it will be an even bigger win. you can't discount this from a group that includes major industry leaders like Qualcomm & Cisco. furthermore, advancing the goal of mining decentralization stands to kill a major bear tard argument against Bitcoin in the long run. it's a worthy goal. and as far as the mkt responding to "stealing" electricity. unfortunately for you anti-Bitcoin beartards, the mkt will be slow to respond, as in years. it always is. what we're talking about is empowering millions of disadvantaged, yet ambitious, smart individuals who want to make money like you and me. the whole concept leverages on Bitcoin's Sound Money principles which makes it worthwhile to do whatever it takes to make it work. you can't stop that and i think 21 understands this principle. stop your whining.
I'm not sure why being skeptical of 21's business plan equates to anti-bitcoin, in your mind.
Anyway, they stated their plan, I pointed out glaring flaws in it, and the response is "these guys are industry leaders, they know what they're doing". Well, maybe, but I can't critique what is only in their heads. Their plan that they have actually made public is ludicrous beyond belief. Consumers can't make money, manufacturers and 21 can only make money by creating a massive scam.
It makes no sense at all and frankly I'm shocked that someone like you (who is normally very astute) doesn't see the problem here.
I'm all for mining decentralization BUT THIS ISN'T IT! In order to be decentralized, the owner of the device has to be able to control the mining policy. In this case, they can't. That power will be concentrated in the hands of the manufacturer and 21. Come on cypherdoc, you know this stuff. Makes me wonder if you're on someone's payroll.
not on anyone's payroll, except my own.
i don't understand how you can use such emphatic terms like "ludicrous beyond belief", this is "bullshit", BUT THIS ISN'T IT!, etc. i thought i've been quite clear about how i understand and view this situation which i don't think any of your terms describes. there's plenty of customer and OEM motivation built in here.
yeah, it might not be your ideal way of decentralizing mining, but i think it can be if you envision new pools popping up by the OEM's wanting to manage their own BTC accts directly. i easily see how that can happen. instead of every individual enabling decentralization we'll have thousands of small pools. there's nothing wrong with that and was in Satoshi's original vision. it's also consistent with the thought that every major company ought to be running their full node to clear tx's and monitor their sales. well, this kills 2 birds with one stone, doesn't it?
What can I say, 21's plan really rubs me the wrong way. I'll try to put aside the emotional tone.
Sure, these devices COULD allow the users to control the mining policy or change pools. But that is in direct conflict with other parts of the plan, which was to bring these devices to consumers who don't even know or care what bitcoin is. Either they understand mining policy or they don't. If they don't, then control falls to the manufacturer, which will be the case with 99% of the devices. That's what leads me to believe it will not even be possible to change pools - the number of consumers who will use that feature will be negligible.
You still haven't addressed the fact that mining will only produce roughly the value of electricity burned. Which in the case of mobile devices, is basically zilch. So we are really only talking about home appliances. And then consumers are going to notice the power consumption that they do not get repaid for.
So what exactly is the value that 21 is bringing to the people? I don't see any. Nobody is even able to come up with pure conjecture that makes any sense, and apparently nobody thinks that is a problem.
