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Today, May 15, the planned hard forks took place in the Bitcoin Cash network. However, according to BitMEX researchers, the network soon encountered technical problems after the upgrade. At first, as expected, the Bitcoin ABC 0.18.2 client declared the chain incorrect from block 582680. As expected, Bitcoin ABC 0.18.2 is reporting 582,680 pic.twitter.com/llFgUXvrsw – BitMEX Research […]

According to the Diar report, with an increase in the total computing power of the Bitcoin network, the share of unknown mining pools in it increases. At the same time, the share of pools associated with the Chinese giant Bitmain, which previously had almost a monopoly position, is gradually decreasing. The researchers note that in this way the network of the first cryptocurrency becomes more decentralized. For example, if the share of unknown Bitcoin-miners in early 2018 […]