New North American Mining Pool Bets On Region And Regulatory Compliance

New North American Mining Pool Bets On Region And Regulatory Compliance

North American bitcoin mining farms all use mining pools to ensure steady block rewards, compiling hash power from miners operating remotely to compete with the industrialized farms based in China. Most of these mining farms use China-based mining pools (pools whose headquarters and, perhaps, servers for collecting hash power, are located in China) because the fees that they charge for collecting and distributing hash power are the lowest in the world.  However, the days of unregulated mining pools serving the North American market may be ending. And hoping to fill that potential void....


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