That depends. Segwit nodes won't be paying higher and higher fees, at least in the mid term. The latter...yes. But it's more of an issue for people/regions that don't even have the infrastructure for drastically bigger blocks. And node centralization is secondary to propagation delays. Miners are already highly centralized, and further delays in relay from bigger blocks will just continue to kill off smaller miners with orphans.
there are no "smaller miners" thothey ALL run off pools.
if you solo mine bitcoin, you have a 10million dollar warehouse filled with top of the line miners which you plan to upgrade regularly
buying a adequate internet connection is beyond trivial at this point.
You're basically saying anyone who isn't Bitfury or KNCminer isn't mining anymore. Firstly, that's not true -- some people have cheap/free electricity and/or good connections to obtain new generation chips. Secondly, consider the small miners (+pools) that are still finding blocks: Solo CKPool, myBTCcoin Pool, BitMinter, Eligius, GHash.IO, Telco 214, BitClub, etc... it's not just about an adequate internet connection. Chinese pools like Antpool and F2pool are already at great advantage because they build on each other's blocks (even without validation) before the prior block has been relayed to the p2p network outside of the GFW. And the majority of hashpower is inside the GFW.
Much of the relay disadvantage for [smaller] western miners is due to this--time spent mining on the wrong block, and delay to send blocks to the majority of hashpower. Adding further delays in relay (by increasing the load transmitted) compounds the problem. Critical bandwidth/very short term propagation delays is the issue for smaller miners, not simply having a top grade internet connection.
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small solo miner do not exist anymore, its been years they have gone to pools.
please point to a small western miner that doesn't rely on a pool to build the block.
That's just a strawman. I'm talking about pools, and everything I've said applies to them. Re-read the post, please. Hint: compare pools by hash power.
(infinite percent) is the worst kind sensor ship, making the hundredfold price increase of running a node [sounds absolutely ridiculous, link pls?] seem paltry in comparison.
