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.
forming · confidence 40 · Emerging (watchlist) · tracking since October 18, 2026 · updated October 18, 2026
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- Oct 18Strengthened +4
Binance will shut its bitcoin mining pool at 07:00 UTC on November 10, giving its miners about three weeks to move their hashrate elsewhere. Meanwhile Block's Proto hashboards are reaching a new hosted-mining channel through Sazmining. An exchange-run pool leaving concentrates template control while hardware supply diversifies, which is both halves of the thesis.
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Supporting · October 18, 2026
Binance will shut its bitcoin mining pool on November 10, giving its miners about three weeks to move their hashrate
Binance will shut its bitcoin mining pool at 07:00 UTC on November 10, giving its miners about three weeks to move their hashrate elsewhere. Meanwhile Block's Proto hashboards are reaching a new hosted-mining channel through Sazmining. An exchange-run pool leaving concentrates template control while hardware supply diversifies, which is both halves of the thesis.
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