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Bitcoin Mining Pool Centralization: Nakamoto Coefficient & HHI Tracker

How concentrated is Bitcoin mining? Nakamoto coefficient, HHI and per-pool hashrate share across time windows.

Quick answer

Over the last month, Bitcoin's hashrate was spread across 23 identified mining pools, but it takes only 3 pools to control more than half the network — the Nakamoto coefficient. The HHI concentration index is 1,491 (unconcentrated), and the single largest pool mined 27.1% of blocks. Lower Nakamoto and higher HHI both mean more centralization.

Solo and decentralized-template mining (DATUM, Stratum V2 job declaration) push the Nakamoto coefficient up. Full data — every window, free to download under CC BY 4.0.

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Concentration by time window

WindowPoolsNakamotoHHITop poolTop 3
Last week1831,47825.6%57.6%
Last month2331,49127.1%58%
Last 3 months2831,57329.7%58.8%
Last year3331,55229.3%58.1%

Current pool shares (last month)

#PoolBlocksShare
1Foundry USA117327.15%
2AntPool82018.98%
3F2Pool51311.87%
4SpiderPool44710.34%
5ViaBTC3588.29%
6MARA Pool2375.48%
7SECPOOL1794.14%
8Luxor1463.38%
9OCEAN1252.89%
10SBI Crypto942.18%
11Binance Pool641.48%
12Braiins Pool631.46%
13Unknown370.86%
14ULTIMUSPOOL220.51%
15BTC.com150.35%
16Poolin90.21%
17Innopolis Tech70.16%
18NiceHash40.09%
19WhitePool30.07%
20RedRock Pool30.07%

Method: The Nakamoto coefficient is the fewest pools whose combined share exceeds 50% of blocks — the smaller it is, the easier a majority coalition. HHI sums the squared percentage shares (US DOJ guide: <1500 unconcentrated, 1500-2500 moderate, >2500 highly concentrated). Pool attribution from mempool.space is a proxy based on coinbase tags. See also the mining-pool database.