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The chart above shows an estimation of the Bitcoin hashrate distribution amongst the largest mining pools according to the Blockchain website. It might not be 100% accurate, but should give you a good idea about the situation and what are the trends. It is clearly visible that over 50% of the network hashrate is concentrated in four main pools – F2Pool, AntPool, BTCChina Pool and BW.com. These are the largest Chinese pools and though some users from all around the world could be mining there as well, the reason for them having such big part of the total hashrate is most likely due to the fact that probably most large Asian-based mining operations are using them. The situation with previously quite big European or US-based mining pools is currently not so favorable and this is probably a direct result from the fact that home mining is getting less and less attractive for users and things are moving more to large scale industrial mining operations.
We wan to to turn your attention to the KnCMiner mining pool that currently has about 5% of the total Bitcoin network hashrate and it apparently the fifth largest Bitcoin mining pool. it is important to note this fact as the pool is not open to anyone to mine in it, it is essentially a private mining pool where KnC is mining for themselves as the company no longer sells mining hardware to end users or other mining farms. KnCMiner is now a “Bitcoin transaction processing technology provider” instead of just Bitcoin ASIC manufacturer, and they have just recently announced their plans to build more datacenters and deploy their new 16nm ASIC chips. This means that KnC will continue to grow their capacity and their mining power especially now that they have probably the fastest and most efficient ASIC available only for themselves.
– To see a more up to date chart on the current Bitcoin pool hashrate distribution…
3 Responses to Bitcoin Hashrate Distribution Among the Big Mining Pools
Steven
June 5th, 2015 at 12:40
One of the annoying things about these donut charts is that they don’t show the effect over time. That ‘Unknown’ is also way too big :) Try whomined.com and/or blocktrail.com/BTC , and have a graph (line charts have their own issues, of course – feel free to use): http://i.imgur.com/K3tDj4M.png
Carl
March 30th, 2016 at 13:18
Hey Steven, do you know where I can get the data for the graph posted under http://i.imgur.com/K3tDj4M.png ?
I am looking for panel data on miners’ hashrate shares or sth similar
asukahan
July 18th, 2019 at 08:59
Poolin.com has 7.87 EH/s which contributes more than 1/9 total hashpower of 65 EH/s, is it the “unknown”? but it’s so well known…