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CPU mining

ASICs have 2 major manufacturer that require KYC to purchase

Antpool and Foundry mine well over 51% of blocks and require KYC

ASIC miners centralize on large corporate mining farms

ASICs are loud, energy hungry, and produce large amounts of heat (AKA big targets)

ASICs aren't nearly as ubiquitous as CPUs (lower potential for decentralization)

Sounds pretty insecure to me!

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Miners can switch pools as they like.

CPU mining sounds good until you think about it a little more. What's stopping amazon or google from spinning up 100k CPU's? Probably cause its worthless