Miners must redirect their hashrate before the July 31 cutoff, as the pool will stop accepting contributions after that date.
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- SBI Crypto will shut down its Bitcoin mining pool on July 31, 2026, ending a service that accounts for approximately 2% of the network's hashrate.
- Miners must redirect their hashrate before the July 31 cutoff, as the pool will stop accepting contributions after that date.
- SBI Crypto did not disclose a specific reason for the closure, which occurs amid pressure from falling bitcoin mining margins and rising operational costs.
SBI Crypto has announced it will shut down its mining pool on July 31, ending a service tied to one of Japan’s largest financial groups and giving miners less than a month to redirect their hashrate.
The pool will stop accepting mining shares, which represent a miner’s contributions in the pool, on the cutoff date, according to SBI Crypto. Shares submitted after that cutoff will not be accepted, and the firm said the pool is expected to operate normally until the shutdown date.
The company urged customers to keep mining with the pool until the cutoff so eligible shares are included in the final payout calculation.
SBI Crypto's mining pool, according to data from Hashrateindex, accounts for roughly 2% of the Bitcoin network's total hashrate. The firm did not disclose a reason for the closure in its shutdown notice, and it did not provide current hashrate figures for the pool.
SBI Crypto operates under SBI Group, the Japanese financial conglomerate. The mining pool opened to the public in 2021, with SBI saying at the time that it would support the pool with roughly 1.1 EH/s of its own mining power.
The shutdown comes as bitcoin mining remains under pressure from lower margins, volatile hashrate and rising operational costs. Bitcoin’s hashrate has been falling from its October high as the cryptocurrency’s price drops and some miners pivot to AI infrastructure operations. Bitcoin BTC$64,533.37's price has fallen 50% over the past year from an all-time-high reached in the fall.
SBI Crypto was also linked to a reported $21 million hack last year, with blockchain investigator ZachXBT pointing to signs similar to North Korean state-backed attacks.
SBI’s shutdown notice does not cite the incident as a reason for closing the pool.
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