Further thinking about #decentralization of #hashpower as a small individual miner using things like #bitaxe the point isn’t to become wealthy by running the hardware, but to help in terms of contribution to security of the network in an easily sustainable way where it doesn’t matter if you’re payed or not. The payment (regardless of size of block reward and subsidy) serves as a reward to those who are able to keep hashpower generating hardware running despite whatever conditions may present themselves, but it is not the true incentive. Enter the cockroach resilience like miners, running #cellphonechargers, keeping the hashpower going no matter what. One can only speculate what future development will yield in terms of small affordable hardware regarding energy use and hash power), but for now the small scale #bitaxe is as close as we have to that. nostr:note1xegpm5wfqpw4wjxk328ll6t5vj5n9uus7clt25nwxk7f9qr5s8rsnwp8a0