Bitcoin Block Data Shows Top 5 Pools Retained Over 71% of the Global Hashrate...
During the last 30 days, the price of bitcoin has lost more than 22% against the U.S. dollar but during that time, Bitcoin’s hashrate has remained above 200 exahash per second (EH/s). While 16 known mining pools mined the leading crypto asset during the last month, the top five mining pools retained 71.4% of the global hashrate. Out of 16 Pools, the Top Five Acquired Most of the Bitcoin Blocks Found Last Month The month of May is over and during the last 30 days 4,276 bitcoin (BTC) block rewards were found. Out of the 4,276 block rewards found, 26,725 freshly minted bitcoins were....
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