I've been thinking lately about the politics of the future of mining Bitcoin, now that it's no longer on its original path as the liberator of the poor and oppressed.
Then the greatest threat seems to be a 51% attack at the worst. And that hasn't happened yet.
But now that Bitcoin is about to be hijacked and primarily owned by the people who hate it but we'll use anyway, it stands to reason they are going to want to own the mining as well. Especially if Bitcoin becomes a part of the fiat currency system.
The shares of mining operations on the stock markets are new, and priced very low, but will one day, not too far in the future, be among the most valuable in the world. Given that crypto is being systemically transformed into a tool of the central banking system Hummer it would probably be 4 retail crypto investors to start a margin trading account at a discount brokerage, so they can take some of their profits from crypto and buy into the stocks of the mining companies that make them possible.