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By the time SBI Crypto pulled the plug on its Bitcoin pool in Japan on July 31, its seven-day average hashrate had fallen 64% in a month. Later that day, a Hashrate Index<\/a> reading put Foundry USA, AntPool and F2Pool at 60% of recent blocks. The timing makes them look connected. Weekly data tell a messier story.<\/p>\n\n

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SBI Crypto's official update<\/a> set the first cutoff at 22:00 UTC on July 30, or 07:00 JST on July 31. Share acceptance stopped, and miners began a graceful disconnect. The company scheduled a full Stratum shutdown by 23:59:59 UTC. Its website would stay open for historical data and payout status. The final payout schedule remained unspecified, as did the end dates for API and portal access.<\/p>\n

At about 11:22 UTC on July 31, Foundry held 26.67% of attributed blocks, AntPool 17.13% and F2Pool 16.21%. SBI Crypto was down to 0.72%, or an estimated 6.8 exahashes per second. The dashboard moved again within minutes. The 60.01% reading captures a moment, rather than a lasting level of control.<\/p>\n\n

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SBI Crypto's daily telemetry<\/a> charted a month-long retreat. Its seven-day average BTC hashrate dropped from 16.222 EH\/s for the period ending June 30 to 5.817 EH\/s for the period ending July 30. By 11:17 UTC on July 31, separate operational statistics<\/a> put the 24-hour average at about 0.452 EH\/s. SBI's official block list showed July 29 as its latest block.<\/p>\n

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The top three were already above 60%<\/h2>\n

Matched weekly buckets from mempool.space<\/a> put Foundry, AntPool and F2Pool at a combined 64.8039% for July 20, then 60.7843% in the still-incomplete July 27 bucket. SBI Crypto's share fell from 0.9804% to 0.6192%. The top tier had cleared 60% before the cutoff. The July 27 bucket spans the shutdown and remains incomplete, leaving any immediate concentration effect unmeasured.<\/p>\n

Individual pool movements pulled in different directions. Foundry, AntPool and F2Pool each showed lower estimated hashrate in the partial July 27 bucket than in the prior week.<\/p>\n

Luxor rose, Braiins fell, and NeoPool was absent. Pool-share records reflect work credited to a service.<\/p>\n

Thus, the routes behind SBI Crypto's lost pool hashrate stay hidden in these aggregate totals.<\/p>\n\n

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The leaders were already dominant before the cutoff, and aggregate data do not identify a destination for SBI\u2019s lost pool hashrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1264,"featured_media":551450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77968,2376],"tags":[81073,78295,80591],"post_folder":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nA major Japanese Bitcoin mining pool just pulled the plug on its Bitcoin service just as 3 mega-miners claimed 60% of the network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SBI Crypto\u2019s Bitcoin hashrate fell 64% before its pool shutdown, while weekly data show the top three pools were already above 60%.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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