Pools are a risk against decentralization. Small miners are the best solution in the long run. You pay the energy as an insurance for network security, if you get lucky in finding a block the better.
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You're talking about home miners.
What about small miners that are doing most of the work and will probably never hit a block. How can they justify spending thousands a month with no return?
That is exactly my point. No need for small miners if every home has a smaller miner.
Using your argument, the current peak has rate of 1ZH/s would require 1 billion homes to run 1 TH/s BitAxes
That's about 50% of all homes on the planet:
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