Two independent miners each produced a Bitcoin block this week, earning a full block reward worth approximately $300,000. One miner produced a block earlier on Thursday and received 3,157 Bitcoins, including transaction fees, while the other miner received a reward worth approximately $295,000 earlier this week. The Bitcoin mining market is currently dominated by large mining pools such as Foundry USA, AntPool, and F2Pool, making it less likely for independent miners to produce blocks. The US mining market share has recently declined, and some publicly listed mining companies have shifted their computing power to AI and high-performance computing. (Coindesk)