Bitcoin transactions might need six days — not one hour — for true finality
Bitmain’s Antpool reigns over the Bitcoin mining sector, and distrust can cost the average user up to six days for transaction finality.
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Bitmain’s Antpool reigns over the Bitcoin mining sector, and distrust can cost the average user up to six days for transaction finality.
Read more (2 min) →Bitmain continues to direct a concerning amount of block production in the Bitcoin network through proxy mining pools.
A bitcoin mining pool has added support for Stratum V2 custom templates, allowing individual miners to cooperatively compete against Bitmain.
Antpool by Bitmain claims to generate just one-quarter of Bitcoin’s hash rate but researchers think it might secretly control a majority.