Bitcoin mining pools
Which pools are actually finding blocks, and how healthy those blocks are. Performance figures are live from the blockchain. Commercial terms are a different matter — most pools do not publish them, and we say so rather than repeating a number we cannot check.
Share of blocks found
mempool.space · last 7 days · 994 blocks
| Pool | Share | Blocks | Hashrate | Empty | Block health | Fee published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foundry USA | 26.7% | 265 | 258.08 EH/s | 0 | 98.7% | No |
| AntPool | 17.3% | 172 | 167.51 EH/s | 0 | 98.0% | No |
| F2Pool | 16.3% | 162 | 157.77 EH/s | 1 | 98.7% | No |
| ViaBTC | 8.0% | 80 | 77.91 EH/s | 0 | 99.0% | No |
| SpiderPool | 7.8% | 78 | 75.96 EH/s | 1 | 98.2% | Not checked |
| MARA Pool | 4.6% | 46 | 44.80 EH/s | 0 | 99.3% | Not checked |
| SECPOOL | 4.2% | 42 | 40.90 EH/s | 0 | 96.5% | Not checked |
| OCEAN | 3.3% | 33 | 32.14 EH/s | 0 | 86.7% | Not checked |
| Luxor | 3.2% | 32 | 31.16 EH/s | 0 | 94.5% | No |
| Binance Pool | 2.1% | 21 | 20.45 EH/s | 0 | 96.5% | Not checked |
| Braiins Pool | 1.7% | 17 | 16.56 EH/s | 0 | 98.3% | No |
| Unknown | 1.5% | 15 | 14.61 EH/s | 0 | 99.1% | Not checked |
| BTC.com | 1.1% | 11 | 10.71 EH/s | 0 | 93.8% | Not checked |
| WhitePool | 0.7% | 7 | 6.82 EH/s | 0 | 96.7% | Not checked |
| SBI Crypto | 0.7% | 7 | 6.82 EH/s | 0 | 86.4% | Not checked |
| NiceHash | 0.3% | 3 | 2.92 EH/s | 0 | 99.8% | Not checked |
| Poolin | 0.2% | 2 | 1.95 EH/s | 0 | 89.9% | Not checked |
| ULTIMUSPOOL | 0.1% | 1 | 973.89 PH/s | 0 | 97.1% | Not checked |
Share is the proportion of blocks found in the last 7days, which is a sample rather than a measurement of committed hashrate — a lucky week moves a small pool up this table. Empty blocks contain no transactions and so earn their miners no fee revenue. Block health is how closely a pool's blocks matched the expected template; a persistently low figure can indicate transaction filtering.
What we could and could not verify
We checked each operator's own site in July 2026 rather than copying an aggregator. Of 24 commercial terms across 6 pools, 3 could be confirmed from the source. The rest are not published, and we have left them empty.
That gap is the finding. Luxor publishes no fee percentage anywhere on its own site. ViaBTC puts its fee schedule behind an account login. F2Pool's published fee page returns a 404. Meanwhile third-party comparison sites list confident numbers that disagree with one another — Luxor alone appeared at 0.7%, 2% and 2.5% across three sources on the same day. We would rather show you an empty cell than pick one of those and present it as fact.
Foundry USA
26.7% of blocks
- Payout scheme
- Not published
- Fee
- Not published
- Minimum payout
- Not published
- Identity check
- Not published
- Serves institutional miners; terms are not published publicly.
- Currently the largest pool by share of blocks found.
Checked foundrydigital.com · 2026-07-31
AntPool
17.3% of blocks
- Payout scheme
- Not published
- Fee
- Not published
- Minimum payout
- Not published
- Identity check
- Not published
- Terms not yet verified against the operator's own documentation.
Checked www.antpool.com · 2026-07-31
F2Pool
16.3% of blocks
- Payout scheme
- Not published
- Fee
- Not published
- Minimum payout
- Not published
- Identity check
- Not published
- Its published fee page returns a 404 — checked July 2026.
Checked www.f2pool.com · 2026-07-31
ViaBTC
8.0% of blocks
- Payout scheme
- Not published
- Fee
- Not published
- Minimum payout
- Not published
- Identity check
- Not published
- Fee schedule sits behind an account login — checked July 2026.
Checked www.viabtc.com · 2026-07-31
Luxor
3.2% of blocks
- Payout scheme
- FPPS
- Fee
- Not published
- Minimum payout
- Not published
- Identity check
- Not published
- Publishes no fee percentage anywhere on its own site — checked July 2026.
- US-based and SOC 2 Type 2 certified, per its own site.
- Positioned at institutional miners, which is the likely reason pricing is negotiated rather than listed.
Checked luxor.tech · 2026-07-31
Braiins Pool
1.7% of blocks
- Payout scheme
- FPPS
- Fee
- Not published
- Minimum payout
- Not published
- Identity check
- Not required
- States FPPS rewards, non-KYC operation and Lightning payouts on its own front page.
- Advertises 0% fees for miners running its Braiins OS firmware; the standard rate is not published there.
- Running since 2010, the longest-running Bitcoin pool.
Checked braiins.com · 2026-07-31
None of the links on this page are referral links, and no pool has paid for its position. The table is ordered by blocks found, which no one can buy. If you operate a pool and want a term corrected or filled in, we will verify it against your own documentation and record the date we did so.
Which pool suits you
A small home miner is usually most affected by the minimum payout and how often it pays — a high threshold can mean waiting months to see anything. A larger operation cares more about payout structure, reporting and server locations. Pool size affects variance, not long-run return, so the biggest pool is not automatically the right one.
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