Bitcoin Miners Ditch Ghash.io Pool Over Fears of 51% Attack
Bitcoin miners around the world are starting to leave the Ghash.io bitcoin pool following a significant increase in the pool's hash share. According to Blockchain.info, Ghash.io accounted for more than 42% of bitcoin mining power a day ago, but over the past 24 hours its share has dropped to 38%. The fact that a single pool has such a high share has prompted some bitcoin miners to voice their concerns on social media and the mining community is starting to take notice. If a single entity ends up controlling more than 50% of the network's computing power, it could - theoretically - wreak....
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The bitcoin community endured a scare earlier this week when mining pool GHash. IO's hashing market share reached a whopping 42%, leaving many wondering if the potential was there for the pool to carry out a 51% attack on the bitcoin network. Scores of users took to bitcoin-related boards and pleaded for miners in the GHash. IO pool to join another pool, in order to bring GHash. IO's market share down. It worked. As of Friday, data provided by Blockchain.info indicates GHash. IO is now at 28% hashing market share in the past twenty-four hours. Undoubtedly an immense improvement, but many....
Read the press release by Ghash.io here. This is a WARNING to all Bitcoin Miners. We sincerely request that miners using Ghash.io leave the pool for other smaller pools to create a more decentralized Bitcoin hash distribution. The Bitcoin pool Ghash.io has in the last 24 hours had more than 42% of the entire Bitcoin mining power making them the biggest Bitcoin mining pool in the world. If they receive more than 50% of the mining power they will be able to double spend their Bitcoins and possibly destroy the Bitcoin value (so called 51% attack). View the recent hash distribution pie chart....
This is a press release by Ghash. IO and does not represent our views. Read our earlier post about the situation here: WARNING: GHASH. IO IS NEARING 51% - LEAVE THE POOL. Bitcoin mining pool GHash. IO is preventing accumulation of 51% of all hashing power. GHash. IO, the worlds largest and most powerful mining pool, has entered 2014 with overall hashing power of over 40%, making it the #1 pool currently in the Bitcoin network. The pool has gained significant hashing power due to the 0% pool fee, merged mining of alt coins, excellent real-time data presentation as well as quality 24/7/365....
The bitcoin community has been critical for the past two days of the increasing hash rate of the biggest bitcoin mining pool Ghash which states that it is currently able to process 37.92 Ph/s leading to an estimation of 42% – 47% of the total network hashrate. Ghash has not yet responded to requests for comments. However, in a press release issued in January 2014 to alleviate fears of 51% control of the total hashrate, Ghash, whose hashrate is stated to consist of approximately 45% BitFury ASIC based miners and 55% independent miners, publicly stated in clear terms that: “GHash.IO does not....
In an open statement published to social media website Reddit.com on Monday afternoon, CEX. IO-owned mining pool Ghash.io addressed community concerns over recent events involving the pool's increasingly uncomfortably hashing power rate, which has recently exceeded 50 percent of total network power. This raised fears of a potential 51 percent attack on the bitcoin network, which could easily allow miners to do nefarious things like double spend the digital currency, among other things. The pool writes: Rapid growth of GHash. IO mining pool, seen over the past few months, has been driven by....