While well-known mining pools currently dominate, unknown miners have 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. Last year, Foundry USA and Antpool were the top two miners, as the combined pools together mined 18,229 blocks out of the 53,510 blocks mined this year. Foundry is the leader this year, but all-time stats show the pool is the 15th largest, finding just 1.55% of the 755,000+ blocks discovered.

Unknown hashrate has discovered the majority of bitcoin blocks over the past 13 years

Over the past three days, 11 different well-known mining pools have dedicated hashrate to the Bitcoin (BTC) network. Additionally, 27 different known mining pools mined BTC in the last 12 months, and all-time statistics show that about 98 pools 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 accumulate 8,185 BTC blocks and the top two pools were followed by F2pool, Binance Pool, Viabtc, Poolin and Btc.com respectively.

12-month bitcoin hashrate distribution statistics from January 3, 2009 to September 23, 2022.

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

That wasn’t always the case, however, and stealth miners like Satoshi Nakamoto are still the ultimate winners of the most BTC blocks found in history. The data shows that out of 755,432 blocks mined over the past 13 years, the unknown hashrate captured 29.90% of the global hashrate.

All-time hashrate distribution statistics of Bitcoin from January 3, 2009 to September 23, 2022.

While the unknown hashrate is less notable these days, stealth miners have found 225,864 blocks since the network was launched. While F2pool was the third largest pool last year, the pool is the second largest pool ever.

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

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

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

Bitcoin mining pool 175btc has found the fewest 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 director at Bitcoin.com News and a Florida-based financial technology journalist. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for bitcoin, open source code and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 6,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News about today’s emerging disruptive protocols.

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