Another possible mechanism could use reward weighting . Mining rewards mature after a period of time, and in a weighting scheme, the rewards do not necessarily go directly to the block winner. Instead, the protocol looks at a window of block winners, and splits the reward over that window according to the proportion of funds committed during that bitcoin block.
This is interesting and seems more incentive aligned.
Ultimately, I think this is a good thing to happen now and discuss solutions before sBTC goes live. It’s also validating to see major BTC miners participating in STX!
Now that 2.1 is live we should have mining pools live soon so it would good to put extra attention on the efforts the Stacks Degens team is making with that. I can see the launch of these mining pools raising mining participation by at least 100x.