Questions about Monero decentralization and how it is impacted by Monero development, usage and mining incentives
Questions tagged [decentralization]
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How decentralized is Monero mining?
How many Monero mining pools currently exist?
Are there any P2P pools?
What percentage of the hashrate does the largest pool control?
Is there a pie chart available that shows the the share of all major pools?
Is there a website that tracks real…
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Is it possible for an adversary to shut Monero down?
Imagine a government wants to ban XMR. Is it possible for them to do so? Only possible options, nothing like turning off the internet.
And if it is possible, what could be done against that? Thank you.
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Can the Monero network survive if nodes never enable incoming peers? Is it a threat to decentralization?
In many/most cases, typing 'status' in the daemon will prompt the daemon to respond with "8+0" meaning that there are eight outgoing connections, and zero incoming connections. In this example, your node is receiving information only because it…
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How do full nodes vs miners secure the network differently?
If I run a full node I am supposedly contributing to network security by keeping a copy of the blockchain
If I mine (via pool or solo) I contribute to the network through verification of blocks
How do these two ways of contributing to the network…
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Technical contributions of non-mining full nodes
How does a full node without hashing power help the Monero network? What is the contribution made by non-mining full nodes?
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Can a DEX like bisq.network profit from Kovri?
Right now the only decentralized exchange for cryptocurrencies is bisq.network. It is based on TOR.
As far as I understand it, Kovri is a better way to obfuscate network analysis.
Is it possible for bisq to switch to kovri? What would be the…
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Is it possible to write an Ethereum dapp that uses Monero?
Thinking about writing a dapp that uses Monero for playing games. Will probably be hosted on Ethereum. Won't accept non-privacy coins.It would send back Ether tokens pegged to the current value of Dai.
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Is Monero really decentralized, if the dev team can easily change the POW algorithm to fight off ASICs so easily?
With the recent ASICs on the scene as of 2019-Jan, someone managed to create ASICs again for monero and they're able to attain over 50%+ of the network. The monero core devs scheduled a fork only a month after noticing this. But from my…
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Monero comparison wiki states zcash is not "decentralized": why?
https://www.reddit.com/r/monero/wiki/comparison
The monero comparison wiki states zcash is not decentralized. Why? Also since it's a monero subreddit, it can be seen as biased toward monero. What are some comparisons to make dash or zcash bias over…
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