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		wmf on June 13, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's Time For a Hard Bitcoin Fork As long as large centralized pools charge no fees and use less bandwidth than p2pool, people will have no incentive to adopt p2pool.

drcode on June 13, 2014 [–]

Presumably large pools aren't charities, so the lack of fees can remain indefinitely.

Bandwidth is certainly a problem though... are there any good numbers on the bandwidth difference?

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