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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Mining hash rate distribution
by
alfredaino
on 23/01/2024, 06:29:11 UTC
If you have better sources I will gladly read them. They may be out of date, however the data collected shows the history of bitcoin mining has been.
I shared but you did not read.

Extra information about Bitcoin Mining History

I have read all your links without finding answers to my questions.



There are some researches and reports that show in the past, there are some dominating mining pools, which can have combined hash rate big enough to attack Bitcoin network. Unfortunately, they did not do that and I believe they see no good benefit by attacking the network.

Visual Analytics of Bitcoin Mining Pool Evolution: On the Road Toward Stability?
https://i.ibb.co/dtJPxF1/petra1.png

The evolution of mining pools and miners’ behaviors inthe Bitcoin blockchain
https://i.ibb.co/Ldz3bWz/hal2.png https://i.ibb.co/FYm4ZcV/hal3.png

These two articles are interesting, but show nothing new.
Beware attacking the network for malicious purposes is one thing, controlling the production of a blockchain for one's own favourable interests another.
Relying only on the past to predict the future is misleading, see the inductivist turkey example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_illusion