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Antpool

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Bitmain's Bitcoin mining pool: a Hong Kong Roundtable signer in 2016, a Bitcoin Cash backer that burned part of its BCH, and a 2022 funder of Ethereum Classic grants.

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The wiki's angle: Antpool's hashrate made it a signer whose name carried weight at Hong Kong, and its BCH burn is an unusual case of a pool destroying its own revenue to push a fork.[4][1]

Contents

  1. Pool
  2. Forks
  3. References

Pool

Wikipedia says Bitmain operates BTC.com and Antpool, “historically two of the largest mining pools for bitcoin”[1]. Its homepage title reads “ANTPOOL - 先进的比特币矿池” (Chinese for advanced Bitcoin mining pool)[2]. When the pool started is not sourced here[1].

Forks

Kevin Pan signed the February 2016 Hong Kong Roundtable statement as “Manager AntPool”[3]; Bitcoin Takeover lists AntPool among the pools that, the authors said, had more than 80 percent of recent hash power[4]. Wikipedia says that to boost Bitcoin Cash prices, Antpool “burned” 12% of the BCH it mined[1]. In July 2022 the Ethereum Classic site recorded that “AntPool and Bitmain signal support for Ethereum Classic ecosystem with $10M Investment in a Grants program”[5].

References

  1. secondaryWikipedia, “Bitmain” [archived]
  2. primaryANTPOOL homepage, antpool.com (read 13 Nov 2026; title only, the page is a JavaScript app) [archived]
  3. primaryBitcoin Roundtable, “Bitcoin Roundtable Consensus”, Medium, 20 Feb 2016 (Wayback Machine copy)
  4. btkFork Wars: the block size war timeline (Bitcoin Takeover) [archived]
  5. secondaryEthereum Classic, “History” timeline, ethereumclassic.org (entry of 26 Jul 2022) [archived]

Related

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The Beijing ASIC maker co-founded by Jihan Wu and Micree Zhan, operator of Antpool and BTC.com, and a major Bi
Jihan Wu
Co-founder of Bitmain, a signer of the 2016 Hong Kong Roundtable statement whose company backed the 2017 New Y
Bitcoin Cash
The big-block fork of 1 August 2017, Bitcoin's first durable chain split.
Hong Kong Roundtable
The February 2016 meeting where miners and some Core contributors agreed SegWit first, then a roughly 2 MB har
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