Bitcoin’s layer 2 scaling solution, Fractal Bitcoin has significantly increased network security by onboarding one of the largest crypto mining pools.
Fractal Bitcoin (FB), the layer 2 scaling solution for the Bitcoin (BTC) network, recently won a major victory in terms of security. On Thursday, April 24th, the project protected Foundry, one of the largest Bitcoin mining pools, and began mining FB.
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come New hardware pic.twitter.com/kpefez8lyl support miners without needing– Fractal Bitcoin (@fractal_bitcoin) April 24, 2025
With Foundry integration, Fractal Bitcoin achieved 93% of Bitcoin’s hashrate. This means that 93% of the computing power used to minify Bitcoin is also used for fractal Bitcoin. According to the project, this will be the safest Bitcoin compatible network.
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This is consistent with the goal of leveraging Bitcoin’s security while maintaining the scalability needed to power complex Defi applications.
How did fractal bitcoin persuade miners to join?
Most Crypto Miners use their resources to mine several chains, including Bitcoin, Litecoin, Doge, and Monero. This is despite the fact that mining on each network typically requires separate computing and energy resources. Still, it’s advantageous to split the resources according to the token price and the difficulty of mining.
Fractal and Bitcoin use the same hash algorithm SHA-256. In particular, networks that use the same hash algorithm support mining merging. This means that both networks can be pinned at once, using the same computing power when the miners protect only one chain.
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This makes Fractal Bitcoin easy to put into Bitcoin Miners, which can earn additional rewards at no cost. However, since Fractal Bitcoin uses the Cadence Mining Model, Bitcoin Miners will not receive all the rewards.
This model splits block rewards between merged and unauthorized mining, with one-third of the reward being sent to Bitcoin Miner. The other two thirds go to someone who has the right hardware. This increases access as potential miners do not need to rely on costly BTC mining infrastructure.
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