Anyone remember back in the day when there were only 7 mining pools and GHash.io had 48% of hashpower? Mining is slowly leaving the pleb world behind and industrializing
I do remember GHash turmoil... :) Observing early monkey ASIC business those days - the ASIC Resistance idea was quite appealing then. Btw, Litecoin was in the top of the marketcap list only due to (betrayed) promise of ASIC Resistance...
Yeah, Bitcoin mining would be more decentralized (not leaving the pleb world behind) if staying somehow only GPU mineable: https://cointelegraph.com/news/satoshi-invented-gpu-mining-to-defend-the-network-says-early-dev