Bitcoin Miners Might Be Giving Bitcoin A Bad Image
I'm just not a big fan of "miners". No, not the miners themselves but the word itself may be a negative as bitcoin strives for popularity. The word throws us for a loop by taking us back to the days of gold mining and gold coins. So, naturally, bitcoin must be mined like gold but this clearly is a bad word choice. The word means physical work, like when they dug gold out of the ground and refined it with hammer and chisel. Bitcoin miners are not miners at all. They are community record keepers. Imagine if we would have come out of the gate with the bitcoin protocol, releasing periodic....
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