The largest Bitcoin mining pool, Foundry USA Pool, has refunded an unintentional Bitcoin transaction fee worth approximately $777,000 (8.18 BTC). On December 19, Foundry USA Pool mined Bitcoin block 875,475, which included a transaction in which the sender attached a fee of 8.18 BTC, which was 91,127 times higher than the necessary fee. In a social media post on Friday, Foundry said it had contacted the sender who had "inadvertently" paid the fee. The mining pool confirmed that after "careful co...
UniSat announced on the X platform that FairPool, a public mining pool created by developers, is now live on the Fractal testnet. It is reported that FairPool will drive long-term development and testing on the Fractal mainnet, with a focus on enhancing network connectivity and rolling out key improvements to the Fractal network.
According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa monitoring, 8 hours ago, Bitcoin mining pool Foundry USA Pool deposited 139.138 BTC accumulated seven months ago (when the BTC price was $42614) into Bitfinex, worth 9.55 million dollars.
On July 16, Loka Mining, a bitcoin mining pool, launched a protocol with a decentralized bitcoin mining pool that allows miners to sell their future rewards to institutional investors at a discounted price and gives them immediate access to cash for their operations.
Bitcoin mining pools Foundry USA and Antpool each held about 30% of the mining pool market in the past 24 hours, and together mined just under 60% of blocks in the past 24 hours. During this period, the two mining pools each mined 41 blocks. The third largest mining pool, ViaBTC, mined about 11% of blocks.