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3,140.66

36.96 (1.19%)

21:26:28 - Realtime Data

Name	Symbol	Market	Market Cap ($)	Algorithm
Ethereum	ETHUSD	Crypto	377,741,944,272	Not Mineable

	Price Change	Price Change %	Current Price	Bid Price	Offer
	36.96	1.19%	3,140.66	3,140.76	3,140.84

High Price	Low Price	Open Price	Prev. Close	52 Week Range
3,167.85	3,093.87	3,100.69	3,103.70	1,520.85 - 4,093.88

Exchange	Last Trade	Size	Trade Price	Currency
GDAX	21:26:26	0.063366	3,140.66	USD

Price x Volume	Volume	Base Symbol	Related Pairs
120,568,104.95	38,574.59	ETH	ETHEUR	ETHGBP	ETHBTC

Bitcoin Just Got Invaded By A “Big, Unknown Miner,” What’s Happening?

25/05/2023 12:00am

NEWSBTC

Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency network whose coin, BTC, is the most valuable, seems to have been invaded by an unknown miner. And the community has the new guest on their radar. Unknown Miner Dominates In the last few hours, the entity has not only plugged into the network but has proceeded to mine several blocks, getting rewarded with the precious 6.25 BTC. What’s intriguing is that trackers cannot pick out the true identity of the miner who has usurped the established pools such as Binance Pool, AntPool, and even giant mining farms like Foundry USA. Related Reading: Ethereum Staking Hits Over $40 Billion After Shanghai Upgrade: What It Means For ETH For the last day, the miner has verified over 10 Bitcoin blocks, earning over 65 BTC worth over $1.7 million at spot rates. While there is a chance that a “big” player is new to Bitcoin and has plugged in possibly thousands of mining rigs to stay competitive and verify blocks successfully, it is almost likely that the “unknown” entity is a mining pool. In proof-of-work networks like Bitcoin, a group of miners, that is, retail individuals operating mining nodes, can join hands and merge their computing power called hash rate in “pools.” Whenever they do this, they stand a chance of verifying a block of BTC transactions. In return, the network automatically rewards them with not only the block rewards of 6.25 BTC but also fees associated with the block. Although rare, fees accumulated in a block may be over 50% of the block reward distributed from the protocol level. With the Bitcoin hash rate constantly rising and more miners pouring in, mining pools dominate. However, several pools are tailored to meet the needs of various miners. Applicable fees, reliability, and the size of their hash rate are some considerations that may also affect reputation. However, over the years, some of the biggest include AntPool and ViaBTC. Is This F2Pool? It is speculated that the “unknown” entity is F2Pool. The error is displayed on trackers because “Mempool’s attribution logic is just missing them.” Whether this will also turn out to be true or false will later be verified. This is because attribution “depends on who the miner says they are. It’d be easy to impersonate another pool and not guaranteed that that pool would notice and deny it was them”. Related Reading: Crypto Market Alert: Tether Market Cap Fuel Hopes For Major Rally F2Pool is one of the oldest and largest mining pools in the world. According to data from mempool.space, the pool controls 8.19% of the total Bitcoin hash rate. While it is popular, recent data shows there could have been a hitch in the attribution logic. Trackers show that the last time F2Pool mined was in late May 24. Feature Image From Canva, Chart From TradingView

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