The mining pools of Antpool and BTC.com, controlled by the largest manufacturer of equipment for the extraction of cryptocurrency Bitmain, lost about 28% of their market share in the second half of 2018.
So, if in June they controlled 41% of the hashrate on the Bitcoin network, now this figure, according to Long Hash , is in the region of 29%.
If, however, refer to the data blockchain.com, then you can find that the total share of Antpool and BTC.com is only 25.9%. At the same time, the bitcoin network hashrate reached 42.17 EH / s.
Data Blockchain.com
Note that, following the fall in price, the hash rate and complexity of mining on the Bitcoin network also showed a serious decline.
Nevertheless, on the night of January 1, for the first time since October 2018, the complexity increased by 10%.
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