Activity at Binance's bitcoin mining pool fell ahead of its closure

Binance Pool found one Bitcoin block in a week. The service's shutdown was announced for 10 November.

A mining pool combines its participants' computing power and shares the rewards among them. After the closure, participants can point their machines at another pool, so the service ending does not in itself remove machines from the network.

Block data over the coming weeks will show how activity is distributed among the remaining pools. A single week's result is only a snapshot, because in the short term finding blocks also comes down to chance.