> If low-income-variability pooled mining becomes impossible, then my guess is that mining will be centralised to people who run purpose-built datacentres full of miners, not the casual users.
AFAIK, that's already happened. The difference is only that mining pools owned by independent entities wouldn't be able to collaborate. So you'd be more likely to have e.g. 5-10 big pools, as opposed to 2.
AFAIK, that's already happened. The difference is only that mining pools owned by independent entities wouldn't be able to collaborate. So you'd be more likely to have e.g. 5-10 big pools, as opposed to 2.