i happened to see no future for bitcoin if and when it is ONLY produced (and dumped en masse) by Bitfury, KnC, Spond/bitcoinshop and Bitmain+associates.
This makes no market and 2014-2015 bear market and super slow (if any) rise in transactions volume proves it.
How can we, current miners, continue mine when nobody will sell most current miners to us? it's just self explanatory.
maybe 21 inc is crazy and it won't work, but without this proposal, bitcoin will be dead or severely marginalized within a few years.
So for you the threshold of "decentralized" is 5 instead of 4? So far I have seen nothing to suggest that the 21Inc miners won't all be working with a single 21Inc pool, have you? I have zero reason to believe that any such gadget will be configurable to me to any degree than beyond that required to make it work within the "21 Bitcoin universe". I supply Internet and electricity, on my dime, and maybe I get something back from 21? This just distributes geographically the miners. It doesn't significantly change the dynamics any, in my opinion.
It seems to me that:
1. if you have/get stream of satoshis, you will learn how to use them, then maybe want to replenish them from outside, increasing buying of bitcoin and hence at least achieving balance if not sponsoring bitcoin appreciation.
2. it is very unlikely that you would immediately dump your satoshis in comparison with the aforementioned four mining companies, which do the dumping in a heartbeat (allegedly).
3. since you already have an account, all kind of payments could be directed to you in satoshis instead of other currencies due to cheaper/easier distribution:
to me it looks better than a current mining situation that is rather bleak.