⚡️💬 Do you find it concerning that one mining pool found 8 Bitcoin blocks in a row this weekend? #asknostr
Discussion
Yes 😓
Luck itself is not an issue. But the hash rate is a bit of a concern.
Fucking assholes filled them with spam too!
Someone needs to tell these guys about knots!
Yes
Summary Table
Date Mining Pool Consecutive Blocks
March 30, 2025 Foundry USA 9 Most ever recorded?
August 18, 2025 Foundry USA 8
May 17, 2024 AntPool 7
Try flipping a coin and getting heads 8 times in a row...
How do the odds of that compare to the number of Bitcoin blocks there have been?
No, because the miners can jump to another pool in seconds
Not really. I mean: it's already concerning that so few pools control such a large share of the hash power... but, that 1 of those dominant pools occasionally wins several consecutive blocks in a row is just an expected statistical eventuality. 🤷♂️
This comment makes no sense.
This keeps me up at night.
Yikes
'Merica!
Not a huge statistical outlier
Exactly. For a pool that has about a 30% chance at winning each block, it should be expected to win 8 in a row once every 15000 blocks or so on average.
I’m more interested in how they generate all that electricity to power the miners.
i posted about this too.
it‘s an issue and does not instil confidence.
The chance of that for any 8 consecutive blocks is 0.31^8 = 0.0000852891037441 or 0.0085%. Not zero.
We just need to allow smaller miners who find easier hashes to contribute to blocks.
My idea on how to do this:
No. Humans can't help themselves in seeing patterns in random events. Every block is an independent random event. It's just a coincidence.
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