The Problem Bitcoin
Mining Creates
The intentional metaphor in the term mining alludes to
literal mining gold, disingenuously so. Mining for gold doesn’t grant the
ability to alter gold’s nature, wheres Bitcoin mining does offer that capacity.
As Bitcoin establishes itself comfortably in countries
like China, Japan and India, and the Bitcoin exchange market becomes a reality
among citizens and even among Bitcoin exchange services in India competing to
be the best Bitcoin exchange in India, many countries take proactive stances on
cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin to take advantage of the best Bitcoin rates in
their own way.
The systematic problem in Bitcoin’s structure is that
mining is incentivized but controlled. In order to issue Bitcoin, Bitcoin must
be mined, but, the more are mined the harder the mining process becomes and the
less lucrative it is to do so.
This creates a logistical problem for miners without
specialized computers, given that if you have less a capable machine, it might
be more costly to pay for the electricity your machine consumes mining for you
to the point where it adwares your earnings.
This makes it
so that the demographic of miners will diminish in numbers, leaving the
landscape of Bitcoin mining to government subsidized industrial scale
operations, since it’s only large scale organizations that can bank-roll this
in a cost efficient way.
As less miners remain a brand new problem is born, the
problem of 51%. Bitcoin’s designed decentralization has this problem as an
inevitable consequence. If a, let’s say for the sake of the example, that the
government of China were to create subsidies for governmental regulated mining,
then they would grant themselves the capacity to modify the rules of Bitcoins
whimsically.
The collapse in Bitcoin is far from being the only
consequence of this risk. Given that the capacity to mine Bitcoin overlaps with
Bitcoins intrinsic value, a party having direct influence over Bitcoin, can
also influence its intrinsic value as they so please.
Such a thing
has never occurred before in the history of human civilization. Cornering a
market has been a possibility before, yes, but the ability of controlling its
intrinsic value is unheard of.
Although all we have to worry for the time being is
the Bitcoin speculative bubble and when could pop.