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Poolin was bitcoin's biggest mining pool and now it's filing for bankruptcy

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Poolin, formerly Bitcoin's largest mining pool, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with ~$173M in liabilities; the filing formalises a collapse that began in 2022 and poses no new systemic risk to Bitcoin's network or hashrate.

Status
Active
Confirmation
Confirmed
Event type
CORPORATE_ACTION
Market scope
SECTOR
Direction
-1
Impact / urgency
2 / 2
Impact category
MODERATE
Risk stance
RISK OFF
Promotion
CONTEXT · 38/100
Promotion reason
Formal Chapter 11 filing by a historically significant Bitcoin mining entity with $173M in liabilities and 11,700 affected creditors is a material legal and corporate event with sector relevance, warranting archival and contextual coverage even though no new market-moving consequences are anticipated.
Duration class
STRUCTURAL
Assets
BTC
Sectors
Bankruptcy/Legal, Bitcoin Mining, Cryptocurrency
First detected
Impact started
Scheduled for
Not published
Occurred at

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Poolin was bitcoin's biggest mining pool and now it's filing for bankruptcy

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