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GHash.io briefly exceeds half of observed hash rate

The GHash.io mining pool produced more than half of Bitcoin’s blocks over a short observation window.

No successful majority attack was reported, and the pool later said it would limit its share. The episode showed that voluntary pool concentration could approach the security threshold Bitcoin’s design assumes no hostile party controls.