# 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.

- Conviction: 40 / 100 (forming)
- Horizon: Emerging (watchlist)
- Tracking since: 2026-10-18T00:00:00.000Z
- Last updated: 2026-10-18T06:20:14.819Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/trends/bitcoin-mining-pool-consolidation
- Publisher: Polylog
- Affected regions: Global

## Recent evidence

- [confirms] Binance will shut its bitcoin mining pool on November 10, giving its miners about three weeks to move their hashrate (2026-10-18): 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.