How is this 'centralized' - ? https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/mining/by-country/
Discussion
Pools.
Matt, WGMI?
When bitcoiners start harassing every large pool and miner at meetups and on Twitter, maybe. Until then we’re just LARPing.
Is the main point of SV2 allowing hashers to create their own block templates?
Can you help me understand how SV2 helps to decentralize mining? (Or link)
I have been worried about the centralization of mining for a long time now.
I will do my part, but want to make sure we improve this.
Mining is fairly decentralized already, transaction selection (ie the thing that matters for censorship resistance) is not (because it’s controlled by the pools). Moving that task from pools to the miners would make bitcoin a lot more censorship resistant.
It’s not perfect, something like P2Pool/BraidPool may be better, but it’s 95% there and pretty achieveable, getting miners to move to something totally different is a big ask.