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Morning Edition · Sunday, October 18, 2026Published at 1:40 AM EDT · New York
Binance will shut its bitcoin mining pool on November 10, giving its miners about three weeks to move their hashrate
Mining stops at 07:00 UTC that day and historical records close two weeks later, while Block's Proto hashboards reach a new hosted-mining channel through Sazmining.
Binance Pool will stop mining at 07:00 UTC on November 10, CryptoSlate reported. Final payouts depend on each miner's eligibility, and access to historical records ends two weeks after the shutdown. Miners who point hardware at Binance Pool…
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Bitcoin Pool Control Concentrates
As exchange-run and smaller pools exit, control over bitcoin block templates keeps concentrating in a few large pools even as hardware supply slowly diversifies, which increases exposure to transaction filtering under state pressure.
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