{"id":87771,"date":"2023-12-01T17:56:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T15:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=87771"},"modified":"2025-09-13T13:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T10:56:13","slug":"antpool-overtakes-foundry-usa-in-bitcoin-blocks-mined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/antpool-overtakes-foundry-usa-in-bitcoin-blocks-mined\/","title":{"rendered":"Antpool overtakes Foundry USA in Bitcoin blocks mined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitmain&#8217;s subsidiary Antpool overtook Foundry USA in November, becoming the largest Bitcoin mining pool by blocks mined. According to <a href=\\\"https:\/\/theminermag.com\/news\/2023-12-01\/bitmain-antpool-foundry-bitcoin-blocks\/\\\">TheMinerMag<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\\\"lazy\\\" decoding=\\\"async\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/lh7-eu.googleusercontent.com\/jVfbmPEbbd15JKs23kic68idUFnqIMugzCy-dlHH80wpGCrPTHRuzmyucFJAOHKLgEz1QG44g6ZQ-eQbRnZdLoIJJVK4SXV3yKmWxMoK5O8TXp7NESJZYCIpHapb0ucPyb0zNg-7B9Q_KeDeL4qgpaI\\\" width=\\\"602\\\" height=\\\"241\\\">Data: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/btc.com\/\\\">BTC.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In terms of blocks mined, the company overtook its American rival for the first time since January 2022 \u2014 1,219 to 1,216.<\/p>\n<p>The reward amounted to 8,672 BTC after deducting 83.6 BTC,<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/antpool-to-refund-record-bitcoin-fee-of-3-1-million\"> allocated for return<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>TheMinerMag noted that Foundry USA&#8217;s lead over AntPool began to narrow in the summer of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The catalyst was the shipment of 4,800 metric tons of Antminer S19XP and S19XP Hydro to Antpool&#8217;s subsidiary from June to November. The publication estimates that the total hashrate of the shipments surpassed 37 EH\/s.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists explained that the exact figure remains unclear. In October, Bitmain temporarily<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/media-reports-on-bitmains-financial-problems\"> suspended<\/a> payments to employees due to \u201cunsatisfactory performance metrics in deploying miners at mining sites\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>TheMinerMag suggested that part of the devices were deployed by the company on its own behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, an expert <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/expert-mining-pools-block-transactions-from-sanctioned-addresses\">discovered<\/a> that the F2Pool mining pool blocked transactions involving an address from <span data-descr=\"Specially Designated Nationals And Blocked Persons List, list of specially designated nationals and blocked persons\" class=\"old_tooltip\">SDN<\/span>-list <span data-descr=\"Office of Foreign Assets Control, United States Department of the Treasury\" class=\"old_tooltip\">OFAC<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitmain&#8217;s subsidiary Antpool overtook Foundry USA in November, becoming the largest Bitcoin mining pool by blocks mined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87772,"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":[226,426,1137,1506],"class_list":["post-87771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-antpool","tag-bitmain","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-foundry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87771","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=87771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87773,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87771\/revisions\/87773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}