Are there people who can freely produce new mining equipment to an
arbitrary degree?

Close. Bitmain for example produces their own ASICs and rigs which they mine with. Antpool is controlled by Bitmain and has a significant amount of the hash power. The marginal cost of an ASIC chip or mining rig is low compared to R&D and setting up of the production lines etc. For Bitmain it’s relatively cheap to produce an additional mining rig.

Unfortunately I failed to make sense of your other remarks which looked rather confused so I take the liberty to disregard them.

Zac


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