true, but actively fighting against massive farms with thousands of GPU's and ASIC's, and putting CPU miners in front allows for more decentralization as smaller miners now also have a chance of giving back to the network.

pools are great for giving smaller miners a chance,, but they are a possible attack vector because of centralization (p2pool excluded, as it is peer to peer)

on the other side, this is easy mining botnets too (especially IoT botnets).

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The thing is that asics also are alot more efficient than cpus's. for each asic device you would need around thousand cpu's to equal its hashing power. I do agree with you on that the regular bitcoin users should also have possibility to mine, using heaters that hash etc.