Dear Jbear
Please cite from the White Paper.
Haha! Fine. Let's play.
Dear HML - please cite the white paper with evidence for your assertions that:
1) "the miners were never intended on being a separate group from the users"
2) "Satoshi didn’t foresee ASICs"
Hint: you can’t, because it’s not there other than a reference to SPVs
Hint: you can’t, because it’s not there.
Period.
As for 1), the material on SPV is normative proof that Satoshi was intending to enable non-mining users.
As for 2), if you can't derive from the white paper that units that are 'better' at hashing will be 'more successful' at mining, I don't know what to say.
In any event, it’s moot because we are where we are with miners holding significant power.
As per design.
