whenever I read about decentralizing mining with current non miningfull nodes I scoff inside.
And here's why in numbers:
Assuming around 23,400 reachable full (non‑mining) Bitcoin nodes, if each ran typical server-grade or GPU/CPU-based mining hardware delivering ~50 MH/s (0.00000000005 EH/s per node), their combined hashrate would be roughly 0.0012 EH/s—practically zero compared to the real Bitcoin network's ~1,008.6 EH/s
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. In contrast, if each of these nodes instead deployed an open‑source Bitaxe Gamma unit—which delivers around 1.0 to 1.2 terahashes per second (TH/s) per device
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—the total would reach about 28 to 28.1 EH/s, still only ~2.8% of the current network hashrate.
Conclusion: Even if every full node ran a Bitaxe Gamma, the total would be a modest fraction (~2–3%) of today’s network power—not enough to meaningfully impact or decentralize the overall hashrate.