Like it or not, the Bitcoin system faces the struggles of control taking; reduction of decentralization into an increment of

centralization.

Big pools are striving to become “the” nodes of Bitcoin, uniting again mining and storage activities while wiping out the non-mining nodes via equipment and operation cost increment.

To be able to retrain Bitcoin decentralization, people will need to run a regular Bitcoin node + a affordable mining device and connecting it to a public share hash rate pool.

Running at least a regular Bitcoin node wouldn’t be sufficient for self-defense and dealing with the challenges triggered by actors interested in the centralized vision for Bitcoin.

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