Can community mining bring normal users back to PoW-style rewards?

[lustchain]

PoW became powerful, but mining has also become very industrial.

ASIC farms, large pools, electricity costs and hardware cycles pushed many normal users out of mining rewards.

PoS solved some problems, but created another one:
capital concentration.

Large holders get stronger.
Small users become spectators again.

I am interested in a different idea:

community mining, where active users participate through wallet identity, heartbeat and public participation rules instead of pure hardware competition.

Example model:

- wallet-based mining identity
- active heartbeat required
- offline miners removed
- no passive rewards
- community reward layer
- public mining opens only after initial liquidity/market readiness
- anti-abuse rules against fake participation

The question is:

Can mining become accessible again for normal users?

Or is industrial mining the only realistic future now?

I would like to hear opinions from miners, especially people who have seen GPU/ASIC mining become harder for normal users.

[lustchain]

One clarification:

I am not saying traditional PoW is dead.

PoW is still one of the strongest models in crypto.

The question is whether mining can also have another category besides pure hashrate competition.

Industrial mining can exist, but maybe community participation models can also exist for networks that want wider user participation.

For example, a model where users do not receive passive rewards, but must stay active through heartbeat, wallet identity and participation rules.

The hard part is abuse control.

Wallet identity alone is not enough, because Sybil/fake participation is always a risk.

So any community mining model would need anti-abuse rules, offline removal, cooldowns and transparent monitoring.

I am interested in hearing if miners think this kind of model can work, or if mining will always return to hardware dominance.