Everyone yelling about “decentralized pool” and “solo mining” are wildly out of touch with operating a mining business.
GM
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If you want to help de-risk some aspects of mining centralization, contribute to Stratum V2 development
Ok, I'll bite: can you elaborate?
Miners are primarily concerned with lowering their CapEx and OpEx. It’s a brutally competitive landscape, and if you want to survive you need to have some kind of edge. This is rightfully what they focus on.
Adding layers of complexity like “decentralized pools” or “side chain rewards” is not in their interest. Many miners are completely unaware of these conversations to begin with.
That said, if we can ship SV2 they get clear wins in efficiency and privacy. And if we can make it easy enough for them to do the block templating part of SV2, we may get a win for decentralization.
GM hopefully the options will change as things progress