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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.

Troubling new Bitcoin research into Bitmain mining proxies

Bitmain continues to direct a concerning amount of block production in the Bitcoin network through proxy mining pools.

Tether claims to generate tens of billions of dollars in annualized profit and is deploying hundreds of millions into bitcoin miners.

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.