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> As of today the top 3 pools are 26%, 11%, 10%

Which is 47%. Add in the fourth on that list and you're >50%.

And over time the concentration of mining has increased:

* https://www.investopedia.com/investing/why-centralized-crypt...

Seems like more of an oligopoly to me as opposed to the 'for the people' kind of thing some folks talk about.




Those pools have thousands to millions of individual people just like you, who chose to join a pool to reduce the variance of block rewards. That doesn't mean they have any less share of the network.

In general, if you have a community with (say) 1,000,000 people, why would you expect any individual to have more than 0.000001% of the share? That doesn't mean it isn't for the people. It just means the world is a big place. And unlike an actual oligopoly, there's nothing stopping you from striking out on your own and claiming your fair and square 0.000001% if you're happy with the odds.




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