Bitcoin mining giant BTC.com is launching an Ethereum mining pool

2018-8-30 15:00

The world’s biggest Bitcoin mining pool is now set on dominating Ethereum. BTC. com, a subsidiary of cryptocurrency mining hardware giant Bitmain, has today released a new client specifically built to mine the Ethereum blockchain.

BTC. com currently accounts for roughly 16 percent of the computing power driving Bitcoin (hash rate). Similarly, it makes up around 14 percent of the Bitcoin Cash network.  But, it seems that Bitmain is simply not content to dominate those two: Ethereum is next. “We expect mining operations to grow to 12 [percent] of ETH total hashrate in the next 12 months. ”  says Zhuang Zhong, Director of BTC. com’s mining pool. …

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