{"id":34810,"date":"2021-01-15T16:45:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T14:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=34810"},"modified":"2025-08-28T22:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:17:31","slug":"barry-silbert-foundry-set-to-become-the-largest-mining-pool-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/barry-silbert-foundry-set-to-become-the-largest-mining-pool-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Silbert: Foundry Set to Become the Largest Mining Pool in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Silbert, founder of Digital Currency Group, announced the launch of a mining pool by its subsidiary Foundry in February 2021.<\/p>\n<blockquote class='twitter-tweet'>\n<p dir='ltr' lang='en'>I guess the secret is out! <a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoundryServices?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw'>@FoundryServices<\/a> has launched what will soon become the largest U.S.-based bitcoin mining pool<\/p>\n<p>It is time for bitcoin hashrate to come to the U.S.!<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin miners from around the world will be able to join the Foundry USA pool starting in February <a href='https:\/\/t.co\/vEyy1Zp8Oe'>https:\/\/t.co\/vEyy1Zp8Oe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Barry Silbert (@BarrySilbert) <a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarrySilbert\/status\/1349856171470057474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw'>January 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src='https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8'><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Silbert confirmed that Foundry is listed in the &#8216;unknown&#8217; category on BTC.com, which accounts for 8.64 EH\/s of hashrate or 5.6% of the total computing power of the Bitcoin network.<\/p>\n<div id='attachment_122154' style='width: 797px' class='wp-caption aligncenter'><img loading='lazy' decoding='async' aria-describedby='caption-attachment-122154' class='size-full wp-image-122154' src='https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/d7d52aae5915f7d7f0713c689f892b29-full.png' alt='\u0411\u0430\u0440\u0440\u0438 \u0421\u0438\u043b\u0431\u0435\u0440\u0442: Foundry \u0441\u0442\u0430\u043d\u0435\u0442 \u043a\u0440\u0443\u043f\u043d\u0435\u0439\u0448\u0438\u043c \u043c\u0430\u0439\u043d\u0438\u043d\u0433-\u043f\u0443\u043b\u043e\u043c \u0432 \u0421\u0428\u0410' width='787' height='408' srcset='https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/d7d52aae5915f7d7f0713c689f892b29-full.png 787w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/d7d52aae5915f7d7f0713c689f892b29-full-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/d7d52aae5915f7d7f0713c689f892b29-full-768x398.png 768w' sizes='auto, (max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px' \/><\/p>\n<p id='caption-attachment-122154' class='wp-caption-text'>Distribution of hashrate across mining pools. Data: <a href='https:\/\/btc.com\/stats\/pool' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer'>BTC.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Founded in 2019, the American mining company Foundry <a href='https:\/\/foundrydigital.com' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer'>describes itself<\/a> as &#8216;one of the largest Bitcoin miners in North America&#8217;. The firm also provides consulting, financing and equipment procurement services.<\/p>\n<p>Foundry representatives say they helped acquire roughly half of the mining devices deployed in the United States and Canada in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In August last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/digital-currency-groups-barry-silbert-enters-bitcoin-mining\">Foundry joined Digital Currency Group<\/a>. After the acquisition, Barry Silbert&#8217;s firm pledged to invest $100 million in Foundry during 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s news on <a href='https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog' target='_blank' rel='nofollow noopener noreferrer'>Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Silbert, founder of Digital Currency Group, announced the launch of Foundry&#8217;s mining pool by its subsidiary in February 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[370,1137,1506],"class_list":["post-34810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-barry-silbert","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-foundry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"111","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34812,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34810\/revisions\/34812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}