>>60776504
Holy fuck dude you are so retarded just shut the fuck up. You literally do not understand the first thing about proof of work. Proof of work is not efficient. The entire point is that it's inefficient. Miners must prove that they wasted energy. Hash power only needs to be measured against the hash power of others on the same mining algorithm. Targeting CPUs is a good idea because anyone with a CPU can use it to waste energy and get XMR. If you don't target hardware like that then the competition becomes less about wasting energy, which many people can do, and more about making the most efficient hardware, which very few people can do - thus centralising mining (centralised (eg >51%) mining being the very problem people are worried about right now).
Targeting CPUs was not HYC's idea, it was a foundational part of Monero. Eventually ASIC makers found a way around it. No one wanted that. HYC came up with the fix that is RandomX. It works very well to this day. HYC also created LMDB, the fastest database in the world. Monero adopted it because since a blockchain is essentially a database, using the fastest one makes sense. LMDB is what made it possible for Monero to run on storage instead of in RAM only. Howard's work has been critical for Monero and his SJW takes are irrelevant. Even more irrelevant are your "libertarian" takes because you have literally NO IDEA how Monero, PoW, and blockchains in general work.
