Anonymous Bitcoin miners are taking control of the network

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The most famous cryptocurrency in the world is now a bit more decentralized, thanks to the waning influence of Bitmain and the return of the friend Bitcoin BTC miner.

The research unit Blockchain Diar has has published new data that reveals exactly who has validated the Bitcoin network.

Analysts have determined that data mining pools owned by or strongly linked to Bitmain (Antpool, BTC.com and ViaBTC) are now validating many less Bitcoin blocks compared to this period of the last year.

In reality, they are anonymous "unknown" Bitcoin miners who are currently validating multiple blocks of any single pool.

"[Unknown] The miners closed the month of December after solving a huge 22 [percent] of total blocks, from 6 [percent] at the beginning of last year, "reported Diar." The Bitcoin network is currently less likely to suffer an attack since the pools controlled by BTC.com have lost their domain over the network. "

At the time of the pixels, the "unknown" miners represented more than 23% of the computing power that managed the Bitcoin network (hash power).