# Bitcoin Mining Pools Consolidate

Pressure on miner revenue keeps squeezing mid-sized and exchange-run mining pools out of the market, concentrating control over bitcoin block templates among a few large operators unless miner-built templates gain adoption.

- Conviction: 40 / 100 (forming)
- Horizon: Emerging (watchlist)
- Tracking since: 2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Last updated: 2026-10-15T06:52:12.675Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/trends/mining-pool-consolidation
- Publisher: Polylog
- Affected regions: Global

## Recent evidence

- [confirms] Binance Pool Will Close After Its Bitcoin Hashrate Fell 65% Since December (2026-10-15): Binance Pool will close after its hashrate fell 65%, from 26 EH/s in December to about 9 EH/s. Its miners must move to another pool by November 10. An exchange-run pool exiting moves more block-template control to the remaining large operators.