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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.

Is Tether becoming Bitcoin’s most influential miner?

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.