The current largest systemic problem in Bitcoin is mining centralization. It’s the fact that we have millions of *hashers* and barely a handful of *miners* on the network.
There has been endless claims about solutions, but no project has done more, practically and explicitly, than @OCEAN to start to turn this problem around.
If an opinion on op_return, or an abrasive remark, or some viewpoint difference has you dismissing or denying the fact that they are doing more than anyone else to solve this problem, then I’d argue you aren’t serious about Bitcoin.
I respect lots of people that I don’t agree with, and even many that I don’t even like, or whose personalities just rub me the wrong way. But I respect and recognize what they do for bitcoin, and realize that weird, angry, or antisocial contrarians are often those who do the most to balance groupthink. That’s often a big part of why I value them.
If you think there is another project doing more to solve this problem, I’m all ears. But right now I don’t see evidence of it. And I couldn’t care less what silly statements are made by anyone involved (and can point to an endless supply by anyone, including myself, if that’s what I wanted to focus on) as long as they continue moving the needle to solving Bitcoin’s greatest risk.
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Would you consider the @Rigly project a miner? Its made up of pleb washers but as a whole i believe it qualifies as a miner? They made waves with their latest mining party and nearly hit a block!
Rigly is an anonymous hashrate marketplace that helps decentralize Bitcoin mining. It lets you buy hashrate and point it to any mining pool you choose. The goal is to empower everyday users—plebs—to mine Bitcoin. Buyers pay hashers upfront and take the risk of finding a block. Everything is done with sats, no fiat, and full privacy is preserved.
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If you are Solo mining with a bitaxe or something point it to the Noderunners pool, 

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Any risk is the "greatest" when it become reality.
I don't think we have to focus on one point only and forgot any other concern.
Decentralization should be the concern on any centralization point, technical or just human ones.
Just because centralization is the weakest point on ANY network (technical or human).
Anyway, @OCEAN do a great job as anyone that is working on the blockchain.
The mining problem is the most serious thing we have on ₿. Unfortunately, there is no way to not make the mining activity centralized. I don't see an immediate solution