Good article. This gives a nice overview of the risks of centralization inherent to mining pools and the V2 solution. Good explanation of the incentive issues.

Braiins is the pool to mine with, IMHO.

But if the compliance is asked by US authorities at the miners level rather the pools, isn't the problem still the same ? I really don't see how we could avoid on the long run, a scenario where all miners are censoring at some levels regarding which jurisdiction they are in. Censorship will happen it seems inevitable, but will be kind of useless as long as the hashrate is well distributed between different jurisdictions

I'm bullish for stratum v2 and fedipool so we can kill the mining centralisation fud once and for all

Here’s hoping

One of the best articles i've read. Thank you for sharing. FEDERICO RIVI gj.

Peter was being hyperbolic and feeding the shitcoiners sound bites to FUD bitcoin, which pisses me off. Of course we all want to decentralize mining and pools as much as possible and open to ideas but lets not be intellectually dishonest FUD feeders.

The hash will move if pools are bad actors. Yes there is risk that if highly regulated entities (public companies) produce a large percentage of hash they will be incentivized to use the most highly regulated pool (foundry) and it may be challenging to get them to move hash. It's a concern. Bitcoin is not dead.