2018-7-6 08:04 |
In short, PoWx advocates bitcoin adopt a new technology it calls “optical” proof-of-work, which uses a more energy-efficient laser technology as the cornerstone of mining.
Now, they need to purchase specialized computers costing thousands of dollars and which they don’t do anything else.)
Though exact numbers are cloudy, estimates say the company is manufacturing between 50 and 80 percent of bitcoin’s mining hardware.
Dubrovsky told CoinDesk:
“I think PoW consensus is the most important innovation in bitcoin, and bitcoin is an incredibly important innovation in personal freedom and property rights.”
(Decentralization is seen as a key differentiator, one that makes bitcoin more unprecedented in the history of money.)