As Bitcoin Mining Becomes More Competitive, Will Pools Ensure Decentralization?
Bitcoin’s underlying computer network is the largest, most sophisticated computerized system in the world with working units in almost every part of the globe, from China to Kazakhstan to Venezuela to the U.S. And with recent all-time highs in hash rate and difficulty level, the Bitcoin mining industry is more competitive than ever. Meanwhile, there are questions about whether efforts toward its decentralization are enough to combat China’s dominance in the sector. An important element to Bitcoin mining’s overall growth as well as its decentralization is the network of mining pools....
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