{"id":86666,"date":"2026-07-19T09:05:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T09:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=86666"},"modified":"2026-07-19T09:05:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T09:05:41","slug":"this-group-of-four-now-dominates-over-70-of-a-key-blockchain-resource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=86666","title":{"rendered":"This Group of Four Now Dominates Over 70% of a Key Blockchain Resource"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/this-group-of-four-now-dominates-over-70-of-a-key-blockchain-resource-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Physical bitcoins in a wallet\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/this-group-of-four-now-dominates-over-70-of-a-key-blockchain-resource-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/this-group-of-four-now-dominates-over-70-of-a-key-blockchain-resource-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/this-group-of-four-now-dominates-over-70-of-a-key-blockchain-resource-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/this-group-of-four-now-dominates-over-70-of-a-key-blockchain-resource-190x107.png 190w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/this-group-of-four-now-dominates-over-70-of-a-key-blockchain-resource-380x214.png 380w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/this-group-of-four-now-dominates-over-70-of-a-key-blockchain-resource-760x428.png 760w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/this-group-of-four-now-dominates-over-70-of-a-key-blockchain-resource.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">Four Bitcoin mining pools, Foundry Digital, AntPool, ViaBTC, and F2Pool, controlled more than 70% of the network\u2019s hashrate as of a June 23, 2026 snapshot from miningpoolstats.stream. The concentration is increasingly described as a two-tier market favoring institutional clients, prompting independent miners to quietly reconsider which pools they point their machines to. Bitcoin mining is [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Bitcoin mining pools, Foundry Digital, AntPool, ViaBTC, and F2Pool, controlled more than 70% of the network\u2019s hashrate as of a June 23, 2026 snapshot from miningpoolstats.stream. The concentration is increasingly described as a two-tier market favoring institutional clients, prompting independent miners to quietly reconsider which pools they point their machines to. Bitcoin mining is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}