A “decentralized mining” pool of Bitcoin gets into the top
The Bitcoin Ocean mining pool already represents a little more than 1% of the hashrate in the Bitcoin Network. On June 24, Pool’s computational power had doubled in a matter of hours, reaching almost 11 exahasos per second (eh/s).
Although at the time of this article its capacity is close to 10 eh/s, this figure positions it Among the pools with greater contribution to the Bitcoin Networkas seen in the following image extracted from Mempool.Space:
This growth reflects not only an increase in infrastructure, but also a greater confidence of the miners in the characteristics that Ocean offers, such as the possibility of filtering unwanted transactions and granting greater control over the minted blocks, as cryptootics reported.
This achievement marks a step forward for an entity that seeks to strengthen decentralization in Bitcoin mining, in a context where competition for computational power is increasingly intense.
However, as it also follows from the graph, the power of the largest pools such as Foundry USA, Antpool, Viaabtc and F2pool remains noticeable: among the four they concentrate 72% of the hashrate contributed by Pools to the network.
