Monero mining is a lot easier to hide
-No crazy heat, energy draw, or noise
-Can mine on general hardware and "blend in" (everyone knows what someone is going to use an ASIC for)
-No major pools that require KYC and are over 51% of total hash
Why would it become centralized just because criminals mine it? There are many factions that make up "criminals" would be competing along with everyone else that mines
Easier to hide than bitcoin mining, fair point. But in a world where its still illegal the risks are prison, so yes only 'criminals' willing to take the risk will do it, and that shrinks the number of people willing to mine, making the network smaller , less decentralized and ultimately less secure.
At this point, we will have choice, comply to tyranny or rise against the dystopian CBDC system, if freedom and privacy is crime, I will be a criminal and glad to be
Ok, I see what you're saying you're right. I guess the sticking point would be whether something was still sufficiently decentralized and what range would be sufficient enough to resist capture.
If X achieves the same outcome as X+Y then the additional Y is redundant. Or at least brings increasingly diminished returns.
