A major Japanese Bitcoin mining pool just pulled the plug on its Bitcoin service just as 3 mega-miners claimed 60% of the network

The leaders were already dominant before the cutoff, and aggregate data do not identify a destination for SBI’s lost pool hashrate. The post A major Japanese Bitcoin mining pool just pulled the plug on its Bitcoin service just as 3 mega-miners claimed 60% of the network appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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