By Bitcoin Majalah - 1 year ago - Waktos maca: 5 menit
Bitcoin Panambang Teu Aya - Tapi Bitcoin Validators Do
Nelepon bitcoin panambang bitcoin validators will improve the public's perception on Proof of Work (PoW) and prevent the framing effect from occurring.
This is an opinion editorial by Doc Sharp, a bitcoin product designer currently funded by Spiral to contribute to various bitcoin FOSS projects.
It's not a stretch of truth to anyone who's been around the digital assets space for a while that almost every project, except the industry’s magnum opus bitcoin, succeeds in constructing effective public relations to sell their desentralisasi ngan dina ngaran (DINO) proyék. Ieu henteu heran sabab puluhan milyar anu digedékeun dina sababaraha taun katukang kedah angkat ka mana waé, sareng éta pasti henteu angkat pikeun ngawangun téknologi inovatif anyar.
One area that bitcoin has fallen short in the public relations department, and the focus of this piece, is in the framing of how blocks are validated, colloquially called proof-of-work (PoW) or mining.
Firstly, Kumaha Dupi Pertambangan Gawé?
Dina nutshell hiji bitcoin miners use PoW, which uses energy, to find a needle in a haystack. When they find the needle, they use it to create and add a new block to Bitcoin's blockchain. When this new block is added, the miner gets rewarded with newly minted bitcoin. To date, this is the most decentralized means to achieving network consensus and creating valid blocks. More on bitcoin pertambangan Ieuh.
Bitcoin mining is like finding a needle in a haystack.Bitcoin Mining And The Framing Effect
Di dunya dimana ibukota diarahkeun ku kriteria sapertos skor lingkungan, sosial sareng pamaréntahan (ESG), narasi héjo dina nyoko téknologi anyar janten langkung penting.
Knowing this, the perceived high energy costs of bitcoin mining and the term mining itself, which is associated with environmental destruction, has become a barrier to bitcoins adoption and a red herring used by DINO projects to discredit bitcoin and pump their bags.
Relatively speaking though, bitcoin mining's energy usage is quite small and is lolobana héjo. Alesan jalma ningali kanyataan ieu kusabab bias kognitif anu katelah pangaruh framing.
"The framing effect is a cognitive bias where people decide on options based on whether the options are presented with positive or negative connotations."
Syaratna pertambangan comes with many negative connotations (see image below). With other digital assets available that promise similar solutions to bitcoin with a much smaller environmental footprint, naïve users in many cases will choose them over bitcoin due to the framing effect.
Jalma mikir ieu nalika aranjeunna ngadangu pertambangan.
I won't get into the details in this piece, but the "greener" solution proof-of-stake (PoS) is teu alternatif giat and will inevitably lead to centralization. Though with the complexities underpinning both PoW and PoS, it's no surprise that people make choices due to superficial reasons, such as naïve views on energy.
Téori psikologis nu underpins pangaruh framing katelah téori prospek ngajelaskeun naha:
"The prospect theory holds that individuals are more influenced by the possibility of a loss than the prospect of an equivalent gain."
Most people don't understand that the gain of PoW (More energy use, but decentralized) is greater than the loss of PoS (Less energy use, but centralized). Although it's easy to understand the loss from a purely environmental perspective.
Ieu diperparah ku kanyataan yén mayoritas jalma kiwari tingali perubahan iklim anu serius masalah sosial jeung potongan sensasional kayaning "Bitcoin Uses More Electricity Than Many Countries. How Is That Possible?" ngiderkeun rutin. Ieu kumaha pangaruh framing manifests salaku individu ngan ditémbongkeun konteks salah sahiji pigura (hiji lingkungan).
So, what can we do to overcome the framing effect and have people realize bitcoin mining isn't going to boil the oceans and is actually a good use of energy? We could take a note out of DINO handbook and leverage narratives that have less negative connotations associated with them to our benefit.
How could this be applied to bitcoin mining? Well ...
Let's Call Bitcoin panambang, Bitcoin Validator
Kalawan Ethereum 2.0 ngahiji, Ethereum geus dipindahkeun tina pertambangan jeung PoW, mun ngagunakeun validators kalawan PoS. Pertambangan sarta panambang sakumaha urang terang aranjeunna moal deui aya dina Ethereum, jeung klaim nepi ka 99.5% pangurangan dina pamakéan énérgi geus dicutat.
These energy savings are a red herring as it comes at the cost of decentralization. Decentralization is a fundamental first principle of cryptocurrencies, without it they are useless. A centralized public cryptocurrency's energy usage, even if tiny, is 100% wasted as the network has failed. Bitcoiners know this, and it's why they will teu kungsi ngarobah kodeu.
So, back to the framing effect. The term validators has much more positive connotations towards it due to DINOs marketing efforts, and it's not as loaded of a term as mining. Less negative connotations means people will perceive the term more positively. Avoiding the framing effect by using a more media friendly term like validator will make it easier for people to understand the gain of PoW (More energy use, but decentralized) is greater than the loss of PoS (Less energy use, but centralized).
DINO has done all the work here by shifting the narrative to being PoS > PoW. The least we can do is leverage this effort for our benefit as they have done time and time again using the bitcoins brand to justify their Rube Goldberg machine.
So, calling bitcoin panambang, bitcoin validators can prevent the framing effect from occurring and shift the narrative towards PoS < PoW. Both Bitcoin and Ethereum using the same term also makes discussions contrasting the two less nuanced making it easier for people to grasp. It's also more of a technically correct and explicit term as producing valid blocks is what miners (validators) do.
Ieu di handap aya istilah anu aya hubunganana sareng pertambangan anu kedah urang robih:
Bitcoin mining pools = Bitcoin validator pools
Bitcoin miners = Bitcoin validator
Bitcoin mining = Bitcoin validasi
singgetan
In summary, re-framing PoW mining to PoW validating will benefit bitcoin long term by preventing the framing effect from occurring which is a cognitive bias where people decide on options based on whether the options are presented with positive or negative connotations.
Tambang = konotasi négatif.
Validating = konotasi positif (hatur nuhun Ethereum).
This is a guest post by Doc Sharp. Opinions expressed are entirely their own and do not necessarily reflect those of BTC Inc or Bitcoin Majalah.
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