Doesn’t appear to be as bad as you think. The bitcoins had to come from somewhere—it’s not like they can just print more of it. Prior to institutional/business/government ownership increases, individuals were the primary holders.
That said, I think the bigger concern has to do with “who” is securing the network. My hope is that individuals do not leave that to the businesses and governments of the world. My hope is that there would be an increase in individual-operated bitcoin nodes and mining operations. I don’t think there is, unfortunately, but that is the graph that I think would be the most concerning.
Everyone should be running at least one bitcoin node. I currently have 2 full nodes and 2 pruned nodes. Unfortunately electricity is too expensive where I live, so mining is not something I can do without bleeding serious money.
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Anyone can run a bitaxe or nerdqaxe. If electricity cost is that bad... I wouldn't want to live there 😅
And yes, that's probably not the hashrate you think of, but it is hashrate nevertheless
True. I have an Avalon nano 3s which gives me about 6.5TH/s, but if I run it, my electric bill goes up 200-300 USD/month 🤮 even though it’s rated at only 140w or so. I turned it off because I’d rather put that capital toward bitcoin purchasing.
What the fuck. 2 to 300 dollars A MONTH? That's insane 😳