Pools are centralized trusted third parties at the end of the day.
Ocean needs a good narrative to convince miners to switch pools, as there are already quite a few well-capitalised pools offering guaranteed and consistent FPPS payouts.
I don’t think diversity of pools is a bad thing, but the narrative that Bitcoin would be more decentralized if everyone mined for ocean (or any other pool for that matter) is simply not true.
Decentralized = many small independent pools (offering PPLNS payouts because they are more sustainable and incentive compatible)
The only way we achieve that decentralization of hashrate long term is if more pools like Ocean pop up and miners use them. But Ocean isn’t decentralizing hashrate by offering this new service, its decentralizing hashrate through its very existence by offering miners another pool to use to reduce their payout variance.
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Everyone will tell you to run your own node.
My bitaxe costs less than my node and uses about the same amount of electricity. An s9 is even cheaper these days.
Mining is still seen as elite. It shouldn't be.
Currently doing both, mining is less hassle and costs less than running your own full LN node.
Hash because you are helping secure your savings not for a profit incentive. Once we fix that narrative and point people to entry level miners we can make progress distributing hash power.
Instead we keep telling everyone they need the biggest newest miner to profit or don't bother and the ones who buy an s21 will probably still lose at residential prices unless they are using the waste heat. Plus they are out millions of sats when they finally give up.