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		haakon on Jan 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You can now create a Bitcoin clone by filling out ... Not everybody has ASICs, so it limits the number of people who can compete. In theory, this could create a centralisation effect. In practice, that seems to happen anyway due to mining pools.

verroq on Jan 3, 2014 [–]

You can always use P2Pool (http://whatisp2pool.com). Decentralised mining.

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