You can mine with one GPU, pool or no.
Stake pooling also eliminates one of the supposed benefits of decentralised cryptocurrency - you have to trust someone else with your currency.
Stake pooling also eliminates one of the supposed benefits of decentralised cryptocurrency - you have to trust someone else with your currency.
If I have to give my currency to a third party who will then invest it for me, then why bother with decentralised cryptos at all?
>any operation on the network requires trust that the network will do what it agreed it will do.
If I were an Eth apologist, I would explain how the code that defines the network operations is fully open and inspectable, so no trust needed.