The Blur Network has been designed to address the direct threats to privacy and security resulting from specialized mining hardware and centralized mining pools. Miners have turned to these to reduce variance in block reward payouts from mining. Our network views these current solutions as detrimental to decentralization. Centralized pools and limited access to specialized mining hardware place the security of existing networks into the hands of few.

Out of a desire to keep mining hardware accessible to hobbyists, the approach of hardware-specific resistance has arisen. However, this approach limits access to compatible hardware even further. To compound this, resistance to hardware is something of a perpetual cat-and-mouse situation. Instead of subscribing to this philosophy, Blur seeks to build an ecosystem that is inclusive for all mining hardware. This manifests itself as an experiment we are calling The Fractal Multichain, which is planned to feature discretionary and hardware-specific Proofs-of-Work. Each chain will be weighted inversely in value, to a single devices relative hashpower (compared to a CPU).

The current chain will become the base-value chain (modular chain values will be denominated by BLUR units, proportionally). As such, BLUR's current blockchain will remain central to our attempt at favoring multi-purpose hardware, while we bring the other chains, designed for specialized hardware, online as well. In CryptoNote blockchains, emission is biased to favor early adopters. Subsequent, in-tandem chain launches will seek to leverage this aspect of emission curves, to incentivize away specialized hardware, theoretically resulting in less competition for CPU miners, on the base chain.