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 Did my own research.

With 700GH/s this Bitaxe thing is a toy. In the @`OCEAN`pool it would have just a 0,000021% oh hashrate's share. 

Basically nothing.

But.

Apparently it contributes significantly to the decentralization of the process of bitcoin mining.
People way smarter than me (like Luke Dashjr and many others) made a big deal of this issue and as far as I can understand, it makes sense. 

If having a single entity ruling over the 51% of the nodes is a centralizing issue, why would we  want 3-5 gigantic competitors finding the majority of the blocks? 

Bitaxe apparently fixes this, one drop at the time (just like in bitcoin fashion).

For this reason I'm convinced to buy a Bitaxe Supra (find this website, certified by the same people that make the Bitaxe https://bitronics.store/product/bitaxe-supra/)

I still am not sure whether I'll join a pool like Ocean (open source and permissionless) or I'll solo mine. I guess both instances work in favor of decentralization, so I'll decide when the thing comes in the mail.

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