Can you clarify for me how much freedom individual miners have in a pool? Are the transactions to be included in the block decided by the pool?

chungkingexpress

We don't know the breakdown of how many of those physical miners does Foundry and antpool actually own on their own (or have decision power over). That's the risk there.

nout

grayruby

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saloon

I don't think it is a "problem" that few pools make up a lot of hashing power since they consist of many smaller independent miners ... but it would still be nice if people switched to smaller pools or make p2p pools a reality instead of Foundry USA & AntPool making up more than half and 5 pools making up almost all of it