The Bitcoin hashrate has been climbing steadily all year, and Antpool has edged ahead of Foundry while stockpiling bitcoin.
Bitcoin Sender Struck With $3.1M Transaction Fee, Largest in History
Someone paid $3.1 million in transaction fees for a bitcoin [BTC] transfer on Thursday. Bitcoin miner Antpool was rewarded for mining the block, it received the standard 6.25 BTC as well as 85.2163 BTC in fees for all transactions included in the block, on-chain data shows.
F2Pool, Poolin to start Ethereum PoW mining after ETHW mainnet launch
Together, ETHW mining pools already make up more mining capacity in terms of block share than Ethermine, which opted to shut down mining operations.
Foundry USA becomes second-largest Bitcoin mining pool amid China ban
New York-based Foundry USA contributed to a 15.42% share of the network hash rate and is just 4,000 PH/s behind AntPool.
Majority of Bitcoin Hashrate Signals Support for Taproot Scaling, Privacy Upgrade
Over 50% of Bitcoin’s hashrate now supports the “uncontroversial” upgrade.
Antpool
Antpool, one of the largest mining pools in the world supports ten cryptocurrencies and rewards miners daily for their contributed hash power. As of 2020, Antpool represents over 12 percent of bitcoin’s network hash power. The mining pool launched in 2014 and is operated by mining hardware manufacturer Bitmain. Antpool is an open access mining […]