{"id":65192,"date":"2022-08-01T18:20:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T15:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=65192"},"modified":"2025-09-06T18:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T15:37:20","slug":"moneros-largest-mining-pool-minexmr-to-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/moneros-largest-mining-pool-minexmr-to-shut-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Monero\u2019s largest mining pool MineXMR to shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MineXMR mining pool <a href=\"https:\/\/minexmr.com\">announced<\/a> that it would cease operations on August 12.<\/p>\n<p>The administration urged miners to switch to other platforms to avoid disruption to cryptocurrency mining.<\/p>\n<p>After the pool closes, any remaining rewards will be sent automatically.<\/p>\n<p>The MineXMR team did not disclose an official reason for the closure.<\/p>\n<p>According to MineXMR\u2019s own statistics, at the time of writing the pool\u2019s hashrate stood at 1.04 GH\/s, about 40% of the total. There are currently nearly 9,500 miners remaining on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in February, members of the Monero <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/monero-community-alarmed-by-potential-51-attack-risk-on-the-network\">were concerned about the concentration of mining power<\/a> in the MineXMR pool. Some argued this posed a potential risk <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-51-attack\">a 51% attack<\/a> by the pool&#8217;s operators.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MineXMR mining pool announced it would cease operations on August 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137,513],"class_list":["post-65192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-monero"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"50","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65194,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65192\/revisions\/65194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}