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Fork advocate claims Bitcoin is unsafe due to mining pool hashpower concentration

  • —Fortezza argues the rule that honest nodes control more power than attackers no longer holds
  • —Major pools rejected BIP-110 and continued the chain under old rules at block 961,632
  • —Supporters of the limits switched the mining algorithm from SHA-256d to Blake2b at block 961,640
  • —The XBT chain caps blocks at about 300 KB and locks part of miner rewards for 45 days
Why it matters: The claim comes from a fringe fork advocate, but it revives concerns about hashpower concentration in mining pools.
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Source: BeInCrypto RU
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