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Bitcoin Cash’s ‘Mining War’ Escalates as Blockchain Hard Fork Approaches

Published 11/13/2018, 12:00 PM
Updated 11/13/2018, 02:15 PM
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The global network of computer operators who today help power the bitcoin cash cryptocurrency are beginning to signal that they may take differing paths ahead of a technical update scheduled for Thursday.

Data from Coin Dance indicates that bitcoin cash mining pools, collectives of individuals and companies providing computer power to the cryptocurrency, the world's fourth most valuable, are indicating they will run a version of the software called Bitcoin SV, an alternative to the Bitcoin ABC software most widely used by the network today.

In fact, early signs suggest Bitcoin SV may control some 76.39 percent of the network's current mining power.

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