Top 5 pools control over 80% of Bitcoin’s hash rate.
A mysterious group of miners is planning "a 51% attack"?
If one group exceeds 50% of hash rate, they can: Mint $BTC ...
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What I found about Bitcoin shocked me - and it’s not the price.
No one’s talking about it, but every holder should know.
Bitcoin was built on decentralization - no one should be able to control the network.
But in 2025, that vision is under threat.
Mining pools, once scattered and independent, are now consolidating, and it’s a risk no one’s talking about.
Here’s the scary part:
Top 5 pools control over 80% of Bitcoin’s total hashrate.
Include proxy pools? It jumps to 96%.
That’s dangerously close to a 51% attack scenario - where one actor could rewrite the blockchain.
The top players look like this:
• AntPool & Friends - 31.7% 🇨🇳
• Foundry USA - 31.4% 🇺🇸
• ViaBTC - 14.4% 🇨🇳
• F2Pool - 5.0% 🇨🇳
• MARA Pool - 3.9% 🇺🇸
That’s 3 pools in China and 2 in the US running nearly everything.
Satoshi’s vision was a network where power is distributed over time.
But since 2023, centralization has only increased - especially as Bitcoin ETFs opened the floodgates for big capital and regulation.
And here’s the red flag:
Some “smaller” pools copy block templates from big ones like AntPool.
This means they're probably proxy pools - fake decentralization.
If that’s true, AntPool’s real share is over 30% alone.
And what’s the danger?
If one group (or colluding group) exceeds 50% of hashrate, they can:
• Double-spend
• Reverse transactions
• Freeze addresses
• Censor blocks
It’s called a 51% attack, and it would shake Bitcoin’s credibility forever.
There’s also been signs of censorship.
In December, F2Pool excluded a transaction from a block.
Accidental? Maybe.
But Bitcoin Core devs like Peter Todd say censorship by state-controlled pools is a real threat.
So what’s the solution?
• Support smaller, independent mining pools
• Encourage solo mining
• Promote home mining, even on a small scale
• Push for protocols like BetterHash to give miners more control
It’s not easy - but it’s possible.
Bitcoin is still the most important asset in crypto.
But if decentralization dies, so does its value.
This isn’t FUD - it’s a call to action for every holder who believes in Bitcoin’s long-term mission.
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