Binance, one of the most popular cryptoccurency exchanges in the world is launching a bitcoin mining pool. The announcement comes just one day after Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the firm founder and CEO released plans for a South Korean crypto exchange and a deal to purchase CoinMarketCap for $400. CMC is the largest coins prices index, by traffic.
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News of Binance’s bitcoin mining pool began circulating on Tuesday. However, by Wednesday CZ confirmed it with a tweet:
Yes, there is a #BinanceMiningPool coming soon. 👀
A new addition to our suite of #BinanceFinance products we offer including: Staking, Earn, Savings and Loans.#useBNB https://t.co/hYa48hynX4
— CZ Binance 🔶🔶🔶 (@cz_binance) April 1, 2020
According to Coinlife, Binance has already hired a team; including some ex-Bitmain employees. But, the service is not expected to be fully operational between April and June of this year.
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Furthermore, Sigmapool mining pool CEO, Jakhon Khabilov informed CryptoZink that Binance contacted his firm with generous exclusive referral offers to join. Also, a number of miners in China are getting similar proposals, Khabilov said.
By releasing a bitcoin mining pool, Binance copies a page from Huobi and OKex crypto exchanges. OKex started a mining pool in August 2019 and Huobi in September of the same year. Both are ranked on the top 10 mining pools on Blockchain.com pool rankings.
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