ASICs are WAY cheaper than CPU mining. Building an entire PC to mine is not efficient compared to the performance of ASICs. But I agree that forcing CPU mining is better for decentralization. I would love to see Bitcoin adopt RandomX over SHA-256 but I don't think it will ever happen.

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Naw. It won't. We just have to normalize pleb mining.

Stratum V2 is a pool protocol where each individual miner builds their own block that they want to work on. So it prevents pools from being able to pull shenanigans like 51% attacks or Tx censorship.

Reading about it... Does it improve chances for a solo miner to find a block?