High 3 Bitcoin swimming pools have 53.5% of complete hashrate.
You recognize swimming pools are single entities the place miners haven’t got free will to vote on the present state of the chain proper?
You recognize mining and the entire decentralization factor is about voting on present state of the chain proper?
In addition to the centralization of swimming pools, the elephant within the room is, 90% of ASICs have been made by Bitmain. One single entity, can set up a backdoor, with one flip of a swap, 90% of hash energy can be underneath their management.
Staking swimming pools takes fee, anybody with 32 ETH won’t be utilizing swimming pools. PoS you need not wait years to mine a block. Even 32 ETH minimal stakers can get reward pretty shortly. So as a substitute of large swimming pools like PoW, medium swimming pools alone with many small stakers is what we more than likely gonna see. Far more decentralized than PoW.
The rationale we at the moment have large staking swimming pools like Lido is as a result of stakers cannot withdraw now. Lido offers an choice to withdraw staked ETH (form of). As quickly because the merge occurs and withdraw enabled. Lido could have no cause to be as massive because it at the moment is.