{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"desolate_mountain wrote","author_name":"desolate_mountain (npub1hm…0q709)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub1hm50y8n34vk2m6wnhuawntdcawturxepsh0lxj9tr4ktm3ns6x0qm0q709","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"Because the whole philosophy of the #BitAxe is to put a portion of the network's hash rate in the hands of individuals, not just multi-million dollar entirites. \n\nBitAxes mean to empower individuals to enter the mining scene, thus helping decentralize the hash rate.\n\nI can't quote any numbers, but there seems to be a decently sized community of people running BitAxes. That's great, but if all that hash rate could be organized \"brought together\", I think it can have an even more meaningful impact. One that isn't strictly done in the spirit of promoting and upholding mining decentralization (which, IMO, is a worthy pursuit in and of itself), but one that may have a chance of \"collectively\" competing against industrial size mining operations."}