I'm looking at lighting up a Bitcoin miner for the first time. Obviously with Bitcoin and Nostr my goal is to stay decentralized as much as possible for sovereignty reasons. At this time I don't really care if I'm profitable because this is a learning experience.
I've looked at mining pools off and on for about a year with enough to understand they are essentially nothing more that another centralized node or gatekeeper that I am attached too.
I think I have decided to point my miner to Ocean. In this video (yes I listened to the entire 1:30 hour vid) I was easily able to understand the inherent problems of the mining pools. One problem I was wanting him to address would be block size for home node operators and storage expense.
Ultimately this is why I'm looking at Ocean as a mining pool.