Fair point. It's up to the miners what pool they choose to be part of. But from our side, we can ask what pool they use and encourage them to be part of pools that also reduce pool centralization risk...
Ive always wanted to know if customers are being told this in some form. I’d like to know what the response is you (or others selling mining solutions) to customers is when they ask “well, where does the monthly payout come from”? It would be fascinating to collect data and anecdotes on this, to better understand why there is so much gravity to F2, Ant, Foundry to begin with. My guess is that customers literally don’t know (or even care). And probably just accept default configurations for when the hash machines show up on site; which begs another question of who is setting up the default configurations of hash machines to begin with?? If 90% of customers who buy ‘bitcoin mining solutions’ get gear delivered on site and just leave default configs…well that significantly contributes to the mining centralization problem doesn’t it? So who is the admin/manager responsible for setting hash machine default stratum values before gear gets shipped to a customer? And why are they choosing f2,ant,foundry? Hrm.