Mark_Friedenbach comments on Why you should consider buying Bitcoin right now (Jan 2015) if you have high risk tolerance

[Mark_Friedenbach]

it just spreads the proceeds of creation out over more miners

It doesn’t necessarily do that either. The more mining gets specialized, the more centralization we see.

[Alsadius]

Fair. For added precision, “spreads the process of creation out over more dollars worth of mining equipment”.