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In April, pseudonymous researchers Mononaut and 0xB10C confirmed a long-held suspicion that Bitmain influenced a concerning percentage of the bitcoin mining network. Today, follow-up research confirms the sway of Bitmain over ‘proxy’ mining pools. Although bitcoin miners are technically able to switch mining pools as they wish, this research reveals that as a practical matter, many of them rarely if ever switch away from Bitmain-led work templates. A detailed follow-up  Analysis  applied a weighted similarity score of transaction ordering and block templates across 37% of Bitcoin’s hashrate. The Analysis revealed that many supposedly independent mining pools are mostly passing along Bitmain-templated work to their miners. Based on the template similarities, I ended up with these possible pool relationships. These pools together have about 37.6% of the network hashrate. However, it's far from proven that the same entity is behind pool these. pic.twitter.com/iyqVtGYqPx — b...

Blockchain gaming is moving fast, are you up-to-speed? Cointelegraph Research’s latest report reviews 20 games of today, and a few to be looking out for tomorrow. Where gaming and finance meet in Web3 has been termed GameFi, and it has been growing by leaps and bounds over the past few years. There are even several data analytical resources to try and figure out what are the hottest blockchain and Web3 games currently available. Cointelegraph Research dove into this topic head on and developed a top 20 games report. The report goes over some of the differences between Web2 and Web3 gaming and some of the evolution in GameFi. Discussing play-to-earn and play-to-own, as well as providing some “insider insights” from C-suite executives in the industry, this report gives an overview of the current status of GameFi and potentially where it is moving to next. Download this report on the Cointelegraph Research Terminal. In addition to an overview of 20 games, there is also a section on some ...