This news about F2Pool raises a lot of flags, and I think this is a pivotal point in mining pools. I think that we might see some big changes in pool dominance not only from F2Pool, but also other pools. This might be wishful thinking, but this may be the emergence of more decentralized mining. Of course, you have the choice of what pool (if any) you mine with. But now there’s an even closer look on “why” you choose whatever pool you choose. Yes, pools are always going to exist, but best case scenario in my head is that more smaller pools emerge from this as the discussion continues. And by “more smaller pools,” I mean tight knit, friends and family type pools around 5 EH/s or less even. Just recently F2Pool also returned that obscene fee paid on accident, and it’s followed shortly by this news. We’re about to take a lot closer look at other big pools to see what we think we know and what we actually know. This is interesting and I have a lot of thoughts, but I need to sit on them for a bit.