No, you’ve got it completely backwards.
Keeping mining small scale is what allows malicious entities (bot farms, etc.) attack the network with persistent 51% attacks.
The commodification of ASICs is not only smart, it’s inevitable.
Monero has chosen to remain tiny and niche and never truly challenge the status quo.
Monero mining is a function of price. Since Monero price has been successfully surpressed for at least 5 years we now have a security budget that is at risk.
The answer is getting rid of CEX that do price suppression at the bidding of the state.
Always withdraw all your coins from CEX (if they let you) and recommend others to do the same.
LOL, there’s no “price suppression” going on, Monero is just extremely niche.
There is plenty of evidence. It's something adversarial thinkers in Bitcoin came up with as early as 2010.
It's the fiat endgame attack, where fiat is printed to be lost on CEX, as it is more profitable to burn some useless fiat shit tokens as long as the general public still trusts in it in order to keep a dangerous nascent alternative currency from growing (gaining publicity).
BTC is not a danger to the state. It was in its early days.
