Confused about developer blog posts before launch vs real world

[Shawn]

Speculative mining discussion

To be honest, we don’t know the answer to this. Our goals are to make mining profitable for casual enthusiasts, using hardware that they already own, when it is idle (e.g. your smartphone while it is plugged in overnight). This would be a revival of the original Satoshi Nakamoto vision of a very decentralized network of miners. However, our actual process isn’t guaranteed to achieve that goal — it is just our current best attempt. Our process is: to study Equihash and ask others to do so in…