According to @Excellion on X on Oct 5, 2025, fighting mining centralization is structurally difficult due to energy centralization and economies of scale, but active efforts continue to counter it. According to @Excellion on X on Oct 5, 2025, current work includes open-source ASICs, enabling miners to create their own block templates via DATUM and Stratum v2, and protocol optimizations intended to level the playing field for smaller miners. According to @Excellion on X on Oct 5, 2025, spam cannot be eliminated 100% but can be mitigated, and mitigation steps are the practical objective.

According to @adam3us, mining pool centralization makes it possible to secure miner agreement on policies even when those policies go against miners’ financial interests, highlighting a governance pressure point in Bitcoin’s transaction selection process, source: Adam Back on X, Sep 26, 2025, https://twitter.com/adam3us/status/1971683028834378035. According to @adam3us, the same pool centralization is a material risk to Bitcoin’s censorship resistance, elevating the importance of decentralizing transaction selection at the pool layer, source: Adam Back on X, Sep 26, 2025, https://twitter.com/adam3us/status/1971683028834378035. According to @adam3us, this risk should be addressed with sv2 and datum to reduce pool-driven policy control, directing market attention to mining protocol upgrades and their adoption, source: Adam Back on X, Sep 26, 2025, https://twitter.com/adam3us/status/1971683028834378035. According to @adam3us, traders focused on BTC network-level risks should monitor developments around sv2 and datum and any signals of shifting miner or pool behavior that may impact transaction inclusion policies, source: Adam Back on X, Sep 26, 2025, https://twitter.com/adam3us/status/1971683028834378035.