While known mining pools currently dominate, unknown miners discovered the most Bitcoin blocks over the past 13 years – Mining Bitcoin News

The Bitcoin network has been operational for 5,012 days and so far more than 755,000 blocks have been mined. Over the past year, Foundry USA and Antpool were the top two miners as the combined pools mined 18,229 blocks out of the 53,510 blocks mined this year. Foundry is the leader this year, but all-time statistics show that the pool is the 15th largest, having only found 1.55% of the more than 755,000 blocks discovered.

Unknown hashrate discovered a majority of Bitcoin blocks over the past 13 years

Over the past three days, 11 different known mining pools have dedicated hashrate to the Bitcoin (BTC) network. Furthermore, in the last 12 months, 27 different known mining pools have mined BTC and all-time statistics indicate that approximately 98 pools have mined BTC in the last 13 years.

This year, Foundry USA is and has been the leader in terms of hashrate, and out of 53,510 BTC blocks, Foundry discovered a total of 10,044 blocks. Antpool managed to collect 8,185 BTC blocks, and the top two pools were followed by F2pool, Binance Pool, Viabtc, Poolin and Btc.com respectively.

Unknown Hashrate, otherwise known as stealth miners, only captured 1.78% of the blocks found over the past year. Unknown Hashrate managed to amass 954 blocks in 12 months as well-known mining pools have become a prominent force in the Bitcoin world.

Still, that hasn’t always been the case, and stealth miners including Satoshi Nakamoto are still the ultimate winners of the most BTC blocks found in history. Data shows that out of 755,432 blocks mined over the past 13 years, hashrate unknown has captured 29.90% of the global hashrate.

While unknown hashrate is less notable these days, stealth miners have managed to find 225,864 blocks since the network started. While F2pool was the third largest pool last year, the pool is the second largest pool of all time.

F2pool has managed to command 9.73% of the global hashrate for more than a decade, and it has found 73,477 BTC blocks. Antpool has the third largest pool position of all time with 65,999 blocks found to date.

Btc.com captured 39,022 blocks and Braiins Pool (formerly known as Slush Pool) captured 38,376 blocks to date. The now-defunct BTC guild remains the sixth largest mining pool in terms of blocks found over the past 13 years.

Today’s top miner, Foundry USA, is in 15th place in terms of all-time statistics, and it has only found 1.55% of the blocks mined to date. 12 different pools have found less than 50 blocks and four mining pools have found less than 30.

Bitcoin mining pool 175btc has found the least number of blocks (22), according to all-time bitcoin mining distribution statistics. After 13 years, in September 2022, Bitcoin’s global hashrate and mining difficulty reached all-time highs.

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Jamie Redman

Jamie Redman is the news editor at Bitcoin.com News and a financial technology journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open source and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 6,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News about the disruptive protocols emerging today.