Mining pools smooth Bitcoin payouts, but 2026 profitability depends on costs, efficiency, and market conditions.

Foundry, an upstate New York–based firm that launched in 2019, runs a mining pool that today commands around 31% of all Bitcoin production. On Monday, the company formally launched a second pool ...

The only Bitcoin mining app on the Apple App Store that lets users create private pools, invite friends and family to combine hashpower, and compete with the global Bitcoin hashrate, while payouts go ...

Parasite Pool, a home-miner-focused bitcoin mining pool using a novel hybrid payout model, has mined its second block, #945,601, about 48 days after its first. The pool pays 1 bitcoin directly to the ...

Foundry is set to roll out a U.S.-based zcash mining pool in the first half of 2026. The pool is designed for institutional and public company miners, focusing on compliance and regulated ...

The Stratum V2 working group aims to improve mining-pool communication and give individual miners more control over block templates. Seven major Bitcoin mining pools and companies have joined the ...

Miners who have pointed their hardware at SBI Crypto's Bitcoin pool have 27 days to find a new home — and where they send their hashrate will do more than solve a personal logistics problem. It will ...

One afternoon in June 2024, I stood up against the fence of a sprawling industrial facility a few miles outside of Corsicana, Texas. Over a metal gate, I watched a bright yellow excavator claw at the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Becca Bratcher is an author and journalist specializing in crypto. Over the past few years, the United States, specifically Texas, ...