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This is the list of the best mining pools. To get the top or top 10 bitcoin mining pools click "sort" in the table. Blockchain mining pools got popularity as there are more opportunities to earn money with cryptocurrency mining. It is difficult to say which pool is the best for mining bitcoin, people have various opinions on the same services.
| Name | Description | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown Entity | An "unknown entity" is currently responsible for 0.1% of the hash power on the bitcoin network. It could be a private organisation quietly building a mining operation, or a public pool that is flying below the radar. | 0.1% |
| Unknown Entity | Another unknown entity. | 0.28% |
| P2Pool.org | This relatively small pool was created in 2011 by programmer Forrest Voight. It claims to be "the most transparent mining pool on the planet" because it distributes all pool data for the public to view. As of September 2014. it had mined more than 78.000 bitcoin ( £13.4 million or $20.9 million at current prices). | 0.47% |
| Solo Ckpool | CKPool is a public pool created by an Australian anaesthetist and programmer, Con Kolivas, and bitcoiner "Kano." | 0.47% |
| Unknown Entity | A third unknown entity, this one is responsible for a little over 0.5% of the total hash power. | 0.66% |
| Kano CKPool | CKPool is a public pool created by an Australian anaesthetist and programmer, Con Kolivas, and bitcoiner "Kano." | 0.66% |
| BitMinter | A veteran pool, BitMinter was created in 2011 by Geir Harald Hansen. According to BitcoinWiki, a digital currency wiki, it has servers in the US and in Europe. | 0.76% |
| 8baochi | Bitcoin is booming in China, and 8baochi is one of the smaller China pools to make the list. It also offers litecoin mining, an alternative, less popular digital currency. | 0.85% |
| BitClub Network | Unlike some other pools, BitClub Network does not disclose its founders, saying only that it is "run by a team of programmers, digital mining experts and entrepreneurs who have come together with MLM experts from around the world." | 1.33% |
| Unknown Entity | This fourth, largest unknown entity is behind more than 1% of the network's total hashing power. | 1.42% |
| Unknown Entity | This is everything else on the network that is unknown and that managed to mine a block in the last week. (Other smaller pools and individuals that did not manage to of course also exist.) | 1.9% |
| GHash.io | Ghash.io was launched in July 2013 and last year gained some notoriety through its success: In June 2014. it briefly gained control of 51% of the entire bitcoin network. This majority control is arguably the biggest threat to bitcoin, and demonstrates the power of miners when they get too large it could have rewritten the blockchain however it saw fit, potentially fatally unstabilising the network in the process. | 1.99% |
| 21, Inc. | 21 made waves in March 2015 when it announced it had raised $116 million ( £74 million) making it the best-funded bitcoin startup ever. Investors included top Silicon Valley VC fund Andreessen Horowitz, where 21 CEO Balaji Srinivasan also works as a partner. | 3.79% |
| Slush | Launched in November 2010. Slush Pool is the world's oldest public mining pool, and remains prominent today. Its formal name is Bitcoin Pooled Mining. | 4.08% |
| KnCMiner | KnCMiner is a Swedish mining hardware company. It hasn't been worth mining bitcoin using standard consumer computer hardware for years because of the kind of processing power involved; the overwhelming majority of ordinary members of public pools will have bought hardware from companies like KnCMiner. | 4.27% |
| Eligius | Eligius is a North American public pool launched in April 2011. According to CryptoCoinsNews, its operator Luke Dashjr (or "Luke-Jr") is a Catholic who has previously written religious messages onto the blockchain, the public ledger of all bitcoin transactions. | 4.83% |
| BW Pool | BW Pool is another Chinese pool. It has almost no publicity in the English-speaking world, despite its size. It made a rare public statement in July 2015. when it co-signed a Reddit post in favour of an increase in block size an ongoing technical question the bitcoin community is debating. | 7.68% |
| BTC China Pool | A relative newcomer to the scene, the BTCChina Pool is one of the biggest players around despite only launching at the end of 2014. This growth is down to the fact that BTC China itself is one of China's largest bitcoin exchanges, and also offers a number of other digital currency solutions. | 13.74% |
| BitFury | BitFury is the best-funded mining hardware company in the business, raising $20 million ( £12.8 million) in July 2015. It was, CoinDesk notes, its third round in two years, and it has now raised $60 million (38.4 million) in total. | 16.4% |
| DiscusFish/P2Pool | Officially known as F2Pool, this Chinese pool is also known as DiscusFish due to its logo a discus fish. It is operated by Wang Chun and Mao Shihang, "two Chinese technology enthusiasts," Chun told CoinDesk in September 2014. A spokesperson told Business Insider that the pool owns no hardware itself; 100% of its hash power comes from users. | 16.49% |
| AntPool | AntPool is run by Bitmain, a Chinese mining hardware company headquartered in Beijing. It boasts that its technology accounts for 56% of global bitcoin miners. It also claims to be the largest cloud miner in the world. | 17.82% |
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References
http://uk.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-pools-miners-ranked-2015-7
