🚀 Have CPU, Will Vote: The Hidden Battle for Bitcoin’s Soul
Most people think decentralization is about hashrate. It’s not.
It’s about who gets to verify.
Every node is a ballot box. When you run one, you’re casting a vote with your CPU: enforcing the rules you choose, not what regulators, exchanges, or corporate data centers dictate.
But here’s the quiet attack vector: bloat the requirements. Push bandwidth, storage, and compute just high enough that home rigs get squeezed out. Suddenly, the franchise shrinks. Verification concentrates in racks and data centers. And before you notice, “decentralization” has been outsourced.
That’s how capture happens—not with a fork, but with a slow suffocation.
🔑 The Core Principle
Node runners = democracy
Data centers = oligarchy
If we want Bitcoin to remain free, the barrier to running a node must stay low.
Because in this game, it’s simple:
Have CPU, Will Vote.
Keep Bitcoin Free.
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Dumb, dumb. CPU is no longer a vote for that old fedcoin since years. The only ones with a vote today are those ASIC farms in China, not you.
Don't worry: monero fixes that.
Install gupax and mine XMR with your normal computer. 1 CPU = 1 vote
You’re confusing mining with validation. ASIC farms mine blocks, sure. But every CPU running a node validates those blocks. That’s where the vote is.
Process isolation means my CPU enforces consensus rules independently of yours, or any data center. Miners propose, but nodes dispose.
So it’s not about ‘CPU mining’—it’s about CPU validation. And that’s the core of Bitcoin’s decentralization.
Oh gosh. semantics!
Please read something specific about that fedcoin:
Section 4. Proof-of-Work:
“The proof-of-work also solves the problem of determining representation in majority decision making. If the majority were based on one-IP-address-one-vote, it could be subverted... Proof-of-work is essentially one-CPU-one-vote. The majority decision is represented by the longest chain, which has the greatest proof-of-work effort invested in it.”
It is quitessencially PoW where that statement 1 CPU = 1 vote originated on the foundational white paper (CPU mining). At that time there was no way for Kleiman (satoshi) to imagine that ASIC would one day be used to subvert his NSa-funded coin.
Monero fixed that. Up to this day remains 1 CPU = 1 VOTE there. No excuses. No semantics. No ASIC.
Nice try — but you’re still mixing apples and oranges.
Mining (PoW) = proposing blocks.
Validation = independently verifying rules.
ASIC farms may dominate the first, but every CPU running a full node is still in the second.
You say “1 CPU = 1 vote” in mining — that’s not bad — but the point of “Have CPU, Will Vote” is that your CPU enforces or rejects blocks, regardless of who mined them.
Also — Monero just got hit with a record 18-block reorg, invalidating ~118 confirmed transactions, after a mining entity (Qubic) grabbed majority hash power. �
If “1 CPU = 1 vote” in mining were the full story, that kind of attack wouldn’t happen so trivially.
So yes: semantics matter — because the difference is where actual sovereignty lives.
It is literally written otherwise in that foundational paper. That was never the intention (and I know because I was there), those are just modern excuses for something that is obviously broken.
Also, there was no majority hash power grabbed by someone albeit that entity claimed otherwise. AFAIK, it was proven false. Monero being attacked is a frequent occurence, better ask yourself why it is so persecuted by governments while that boomer coin is supported by them.
Just ask yourself that.
The paper is one thing, the implementation is another. Bitcoin’s implementation separated mining (proposing blocks) from validation (enforcing rules). That’s why ‘Have CPU, Will Vote’ is about process isolation and consensus enforcement — not nostalgia for CPU mining.
Conspiracy theories and emotional appeals don’t change the fact: ASICs can mine, but they cannot make me validate. That’s the firewall. That’s decentralization.
Those are facts dumb, dumb: PoW is the 1 vote = CPU.
You aren't looking at the technology any longer, it is some kind of cult where even basic words and facts don't matter.
When was the last time you actually tried some new crypto technology unrelated to fedcoins?
clanker made that image and probably text too.
Oh yea i'm not typing this shit ... LLM == Autocomplete
people would get +-same amount of information from raw prompt....
they would if they knew how to prompt it ... and catch where it hallucinates ...
They dont even have to use LLM for that? or you mean human halucinations?
Well technical both use similar datastructures (neural nets) humans have real fuzzy reasoning ... llms are pure fuzzy roll of dice ... so both have same inefficiencies but humans works on 20watts of power
Another #Moron read my fucking bio.
If any of the things in your bio were minimally accurate, you'd stop supporting that fedcoin a long time ago.
It's like someone driving a bycicle claiming they drive a sports car.
Don't forget to add "super genius" on the profile too.
I'm not a "super genius" and I'm not an anon dumb cunt coming to pick a fight with emotional gaslighting instead of facts .. you're another #BottomFeeder with nothing to offer to the conversation other than condescending demeaning attitude ... GTFO my comment section dumb cunt ...unless you want to hear more from me. Go work on you C++ 2d mapping whatever shit you do is not remotely connected to crypto ...
You're confusing crypto with boomer stocks.
Names have a purpose: list the 3 different meanings behind the the word "crypto".
If you answer that correctly, I'll acknowledge and trust you to know what you are doing.
Otherwise you're just using buzz words and not really understanding what they mean. 😊
Stfu and read my fucking code ... who da fuck do you think you are ?
Wrong answer. Now do an honest effort to understand what crypto is all about.
Fuck off cunt. Go read book shit for brains 💩
Bitcoin is not democracy. A majority gets you nothing.
Bitcoin isn’t democracy, it’s rule of law. Majority hashpower can’t rewrite the rules nodes enforce.
