On 11/27/21, Uwe Cerron <uwecerron@gmail.com> wrote:
Remind me again, how many mining pools make up the entire bitcoin ecosystem?
There are many block producers that are not part of any mining pool. Given high fab cost of entry and preferential downstream channels, ASIC hard would be better. But you can still coordinate to buy a priority fab slot using a crowdfund non-profit doing #OpenHW spec and sales model to randomly distribute the output under #OpenAudit. Crypto users are their own fools and fault for not doing that, for relying on effectively one premining company to supply them with hardware. PoS models are much worse than even that foolish mistake, not least because they require much less discoverable physical hardware capital assets on ground, O&M, space, power, etc... ripe for attack by monied interests and those who can print fiat into stake, among other problems.