Per coin.dance as of the time of this post, ~56% of today's blocks have been mined by "other mining pools".
I'm just gonna put it bluntly: this needs to stop being an issue. BCH has to do something to garner adoption, price increases, and in turn, distributed hashrate from known pools.
Now I know there are many, many people working hard to get BCH adopted in the money and payments space, but in my opinion, that space is just too competitive right now. ESPECIALLY right now, with The Fed in the U.S., and other central banks around the world. And the stock markets. Nobody is breaking their back to switch over to cryptocurrency from fiat or other investment vehicles. Of course, committed, and principled people, like myself and many others I have seen in this sub, have mostly or completely switched, from holding/using fiat/legacy investments, to holding/using crypto wherever and whenever it is feasible. But with the community and ecosystem we have, after 2+ years in BCH, it is still only 3% of the total Bitcoin hashrate. It would be ~4.5% but fuck Faketoshi and Calvin Ayre, the scumbags. We need a solid 10% total hashrate AT MINIMUM to be a long-term contender for the Bitcoin name.
I think the best path forward to increase adoption for BCH is to focus on SLP merchant-side infrastructure. One idea I have would be to replace business' rewards points with SLP-based tokens. Idk exactly what businesses have to do to maintain their own rewards points system, but I imagine it costs a lot and takes a lot of time. That overhead could be greatly reduced by using SLP to replace their entire rewards points back-end. What business doesn't wanna cut costs and simplify its infrastructure?
Plus, SLP would fit in perfectly with this scan-n-pay culture we've been brewing for the past 10-15 years or more. It's easy to understand ("it's like digital Chuck-E-Cheese tokens but you can buy real shit with it."), and not any functionally different than buying Starbucks with a smartphone, or paying for a washing machine cycle, and so on. Why not have a single app to hold and manage ALL rewards points/tokens?! :D
It's brilliant. Most of the people using SLP wouldn't even know they were using BCH (if using Vin Armani's post office protocol), but the demand for BCH would still increase; thus, number go up, and, hashrate go up. ;)
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/eclpay/fyi_other_mining_pools_51_on_bch_chain_today/
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