The Bitcoin mining landscape has undergone shifts over the past year due to China’s crackdowns. Here’s some data that shows how decentralized the BTC network currently is.
State Of Decentralization On The Current Bitcoin Mining Network
Vienas iš būdų ištirti BTC kasybos tinklo decentralizaciją yra peržiūrėti pagrindinių kasybos telkinių ir įmonių hashrate dominavimo duomenis.
The “hashrate” is an indicator that measures the total amount of computing power currently connected to the Bitcoin network.
Kuo didesnė šios metrikos vertė, tuo didesnė grandinės kasybos galia, taigi ir bendras našumas.
On the Bitcoin network, there are several big publicly-traded mining companies present. The percentage of the hashrate each of them make up for may shed some light on the degree of the decentralization on the BTC blockchain.
Here is some data from Arcane Research that shows the hashrate dominance of the major mining companies:
Marathon seems to make up for the largest share of the BTC hashrate | Source: The Arcane Research Weekly Update - Week 2
As you can see in the above graph, Marathon, the largest of the Bitcoin mining companies, makes up for just a little less than 2% of the hashrate.
Penkios didžiausios kasybos įmonės rinkoje kartu valdo apie 7% viso BTC blokų grandinės hashrate.
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Tai nėra toks didelis procentas, todėl šis tinklo vaizdas gali reikšti, kad tinklas yra gana decentralizuotas.
However, many major mining companies actually combine their hashrate and mine under the various “mining pools.”
The below chart shows how the hashrate is distributed among the major Bitcoin mining pools.
AntPool seems to account for 16% of the total hashrate | Source: The Arcane Research Weekly Update - Week 2
Now this data, on the other hand, makes the Bitcoin network look more centralized. The largest mining pool, AntPool, accounts for 16% of the hashrate alone.
Penki didžiausi telkiniai sudaro 70% viso BTC blokų grandinės hashrate. Tai gana reikšmingas skaičius.
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The report concludes that the bottleneck for Bitcoin decentralization lies not among mining companies, but mining pools. As such, decentralized mining pools may be the way to go for decentralization in the future.
BTC kaina
At the time of writing, Bitcoin’s price floats around $42k, down 4% in the last seven days. Below is a chart that shows the trend in the value of BTC over the last five days.
BTC's price has moved sideways in the last few days | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView
Teminis vaizdas iš Unsplash.com, diagramos iš TradingView.com, Arcane Research
Source: https://bitcoinist.com/digging-into-data-bitcoin-mining-decentralization/