I wonder if with companies entering the mining industry, like GMO and Samsung, mining will have a chance to actually become decentralized, as it should be.
The only thing that might be somewhat decentralized with people running these miners from homes and garages, is that the network itself will no longer mainly consist of large mining operations located in data centers being an easy target for governments and whatnot.
This is exactly what I meant. And of course that it's probably impossible for big mining pools to ever lose their share in the industry, as they can probably keep increasing their farms since they generate millions of profit every year, but if "home options" get good enough for people to actually try them without just ending up losing money in electricity, then the mining industry could get a little more dispersed, resulting in some of the advantages you've mentioned (data centers not being an easy target for governments, etc).
