BTW, there's a reason less than 2% run protocols in which miners, not pools, decide which transactions get added to the blockchain. The Controllers kind of have the miners by the balls. Steering can come from: - Energy & permitting (Power contracts, Carbon accounting credits, Zoning / environmental sign-off), - Banking access, Insurance, Capex financing, - ASIC supply choke: export licenses/customs enforcement prioritize shipments to "certified" operators, - Relay & mempool policy, - Safe-harbor statutes (if you run a certified policy client, you're presumed compliant. If you don't, you own the legal risk), - Reporting/KYC on pool payouts: force miners into KYC'd payout rails; non-KYC payouts trigger Suspicious Activity Reports and audits, - Tax policy: extra depreciation/credits for compliant miners; audits for the rest. And these are just a few of the choke-points. So Bitcoin mining is a tough gig.