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The Bitcoin cloud mining service GigaHash has received their order of 52 units of Bitmain AntMiner S5 ASIC miners and they are already in operation a few days earlier than the initially promised date of no later than June 9th. Currently there are more than 48 THS worth of hashrate available for purchase as some of it was already purchased by users on pre-order. So at the moment the total Bitcoin mining hashrate that the service has is about 210 THS for Bitcoin mining. If you are interested in purchasing some hashrate at this smaller European mining operation you can now do so with a price of 0.00157500 BTC or about $0.37 USD per GHS with an unlimited term contract (until it is profitable to mine) with a daily maintenance fee of $0.00117 USD per GHS. The daily earnings of the service have been pretty stable lately at about 525-530 satoshi per GHS in the form of dividends that are paid after deducting the maintenance fee. We don’t know about you, but we are planning to increase our hashrate in the service as so far things are working great and problem free after our initial first month of testing and we see a nice potential for even further growth.
– To check out the more details about the GigaHash Bitcoin Cloud Mining service…
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…