Bitcoin in the world have been a number of important and striking startups as Coinbase, Circle, Blockchain and BitPay. However, one could say that the major companies are mining. That is, the individuals and organizations that contribute to maintaining the security and integrity of the cryptocurrency.
16 biggest companies mining bitcoin
Some miners decide to work on their own. Others do it by joining a 'pool', or a group of several miners who come together to join forces and get blocks easier. While the first can change from week to week, Business Insider has ranked the largest mining companies from data spanning from August 5 to August 12 according to the analysis of the Bitcoin network Blocktrial by the company.
Below is a count-up groups known major mining with their respective percentage contribution to the Bitcoin network:
16. P2Pool.org - 0.47%
P2Pool.org is a relatively small decentralized group that was founded by the programmer Forrest Voight in 2011. It boasts to be the most transparent group of all because their data are public. By September 2014 it had managed to undermine over 78,000 BTC.
15. Only CKPool - 0.47%
Solo CKPool is a group that can be mined along with other miners to search for a block, with the particularity that the block that is the reward you will get 99.5% of the transaction costs, ie, about 25 BTC.
14. Kano CKPool - 0.66%
CKPool is a public group launched in September last year created by an anesthesiologist anesthetist and programmer of Australia, with Kolivas and bitcoiner, "Kano". It is basically the standard group.
13. BitMinter - 0.76%
BitMinter is one of the oldest groups, it was founded on June 26, 2011 and its operator is Geir Harald Hansen. Two of its servers are located in the US and one in Europe. Your goal is to make it easy for anyone to gain bitcoins.
12. 8baochi - 0.85%
This is one of the smaller groups in China, one of the countries where Bitcoin is expanding rapidly. Besides bitcoins, you can undermine litecoins a cryptocurrency less popular. Its processing capacity is less than 1%.
11. BitClub Network - 1.33%
Unlike some other groups, BitClub Network reveals its founders. As stated on its website, BitClub is not owned by one person or entity, but a team of experts, entrepreneurs, professionals, network marketers, and geeks programming work together to implement a very simple business around a very complex industry.
For some users, functions as a group of mining in the cloud. Users who do not have to have their own hardware can pay to rent one belonging to BitClub. However, they do possess miners hardware may also join the network.
10. GHash.io - 1.99%
GHash.io is a group of mining permits mining with a personal hardware or in the cloud. Besides bitcoins, GHash.io has a Multipool to undermine altcoins and separate pools for mining litecoins, dogecoins, auroracoins and darkcoins. Last year he won some notoriety to briefly gain control of 51% of the Bitcoin network. Since then, its processing capacity has fallen, it is currently just below 2%.
9. 21 Inc. - 3.79%
21 Inc. Bitcoin startup Inc. is the best funded of history with $ 116M in capital investments. It is directed by Balaji Srinivasan and Matthew Pauker. This company does not offer a public group and its chips are not yet available, but their own private hardware currently generates slightly less than 4% of the processing capacity of the network.
8. Slush - 4.08%
Slush, formally known as Bitcoin Pooled Mining, is the group of the world's oldest public mining. It was founded in 2010 by SatoshiLabs with the aim of introducing new features and technologies that make accessible new mining mining keeping it attractive to its current advanced users. Since its inception in December 2010, this group has more than 939,000 mine BTC.
7. KnCMiner - 4.27%
KnCMiner is a Swedish company that offers an efficient, safe and environmentally friendly power for the world blockchain. It was founded in 2013 and today has become a global technology leader in the world Bitcoin. Its headquarters are in Sweden, but expansions are planned for Iceland and Finland.
6. Eligius - 4.83%
Eligius is an American public group that began operating in 2011. It is one of the oldest groups, with more prestige and credibility that is available to the public. Dashjr operator is Lucas, and its name comes from the patron saint of goldsmiths and coin collectors.
5. BW Pool - 7.68%
BW Pool is another group based in China. Despite its size and importance it does not have much information about him. A public statements he made was to sign a Reddit post de reddit a favor del aumento del tamaño de los bloques, a technical issue that the Bitcoin community constantly debate.
4. Pool BTC China - 13.74%
BTC China Pool began operating late last year, but has grown considerably despite the short time that the company has in place. This group is led by BTC China, one of the largest houses bitcoin exchange of China founded in 2011 and is currently managed by Bobby Lee.
3. BitFury - 16.4%
BitFury is one of the largest producers of semiconductors and servers for transaction processing Blockchain. This startup is directed by Valery Vavilov. Currently do not have a public pool, but with private mines in Finland, Iceland and the Republic of Georgia.
In addition, the company is better funded mining hardware. Since its inception has raised approximately $ 60M. But despite its importance in Bitcoin mining, Vavilov insists that there is a mining company. As stated a Coindesk, BitFury is a technology company that hopes to expand to other areas of knowledge.
2. Discusfish / F2pool - 16.49%
F2Pool, also known as Discusfish by its logo, is a Chinese group led by Mao and Wang Chun Shihang which opened on 5 May 2013. According to CoinDesk, constitutes approximately 25% of the Bitcoin network and 30% litecoin of the network. In July this year the group generated the largest transaction ever recorded in order to clarify a spam attack launched to the network. In addition, a spokesperson told Business Insider that the group has no hardware itself, 100% of its processing power comes from users.
1. AntPool - 17.82%
AntPool is a group led by Bitmain,, the largest provider of hardware for Bitcoin mining and related services based in Beijing. The objective of this group is Bitman contribute to decentralization and the strength of the Bitcoin network. In addition, most of the processing power is in the hands of users. This group represents 56% of all Bitcoin miners and also claims to be the largest mining service in the cloud world.
