"For a community that has always worried about the block chain being taken over by an oppressive government, it is a rich irony."
This is neither irony or coincidence. Blocking blockchain growth via censorship and coercion is how enemies of bitcoin have chosen to attack it. Lots of loosers will ...
Here is the link to video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5OjMdqkiiI
From the video 'How do we know the best ideas rise to the top.'
The right to fork. It's a human right. It's a right because any group of sufficient size has defectors (to use Bruce Schneier speak.) With enough time and a ...
Oh and and the next block algorithm type should be semi random (seeded by the last block) it more closely simulates real mining which was Satoshi's stated goal. You never know exactly what the next square meter of rock contains until you remove the one before it. That motivates small miners to stay ...
"but how many algos would you need to archieve that?
is it impossible for a hardware manufacture to build rigs for this? i guess you can always build special minings rigs and end up the same way we have today."
A handful (sha,scrypt,etc) should make it more difficult to optimize via hardware. IMO ...
Rip's comment at the end is excellent and worth a read too.
Totalitarianism is certainly the word. Not certain what's really going on in people's heads but open source needed none of this panicky censorship before and Linux runs the earth.