aka Slush's pool
News
- 26.04.2013
Because the user database has been compromised in recent hack, please change password to your pool account!
- 25.04.2013
Pool is recovering to normal operation from previous attack, delayed payouts will be processed in the afternoon (UTC).
- 18.04.2013
Pool is recovering from DDoS attack.
- 14.04.2013
As announced in Getwork deprecation plan, the hashrate on Stratum is far above 90%, so workers which are still using the deprecated Getwork protocol are now charged by 10% fee. Please update your software and start using modern Stratum miners to reduce your fees back to 2%!
- 12.03.2013
Bitcoin network recently experienced global problems which caused some pool blocks to be invalid. Everything seems to be fixed now.
- 10.03.2013
Default mining URL for Stratum is stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333. If you're still using api.bitcoin.cz, please fix your URL to prevent fallback to deprecated Getwork protocol.
- 08.03.2013
User-defined, per-worker difficulty has been released!
- 04.03.2013
Stratum proxy version 1.5.2 has been released. This is bugfix release which add compatibility with some old miners (phoenix, Diablo).
- 03.03.2013
Stratum proxy version 1.5.0 has been released. All proxy users are encouraged to update.
- 13.02.2013
Plan of removing the getwork support
- 31.01.2013
ASIC mining become a reality. Jeff Garzik (bitcoin core developer) is testing first shipped unit of Avalon ASIC miner on our pool.
- 30.01.2013
Native IPv6 address is now available. You can use ipv6.stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 in your miner if your miners have IPv6 support! Please note that IPv6 works only for Stratum miners.
- 08.12.2012
If you're using old miners from early 2011 or you're mining on URL "mining.bitcoin.cz:8332", please update your miners and use "api.bitcoin.cz:8332" in your configuration instead. Mining on URL "mining.bitcoin.cz" is not working anymore.
- 27.11.2012
Only one day remains to halving block reward from 50 BTC to 25 BTC. Thanks to this change in Bitcoin world, mining income will be drastically reduced. As a countermeasure, pool is now paying block fees to miners. Everything you need to collect block fees is to use miner with Stratum support.
- 24.11.2012
Pool is now giving transaction fees to Stratum miners! Use miner with Stratum support (latest version of GUIminer, cgminer, bfgminer, poclbm) or use your favourite miner with Stratum proxy to improve your mining income!
- 19.11.2012
Guiminer with Stratum support has been released. Upgrade is highly recommended.
- 12.10.2012
All users are encouraged to install or update Stratum proxy to current stable version 1.1.1. Instructions are here.
- 12.10.2012
New version of cgminer has been released. Please update cgminer to version 2.8.3, which fixes serious bugs introduced in previous versions.
- 10.10.2012
In effect from 01.11.2012, pool increases the lower limit for payouts ("send threshold") to 0.05 BTC (around $0.6) as a protection against high transaction fees for tiny payouts. If you have a balance of less than 0.05 BTC and want to withdraw them, please do so before November 1.
- 20.09.2012
New version of poclbm miner has been released. All poclbm users are encouraged to update their miner, latest version includes major optimization.
- 11.09.2012
I'm seeking for beta testers of new mining protocol called Stratum mining. If you want to join testing, please download the proxy and point your miners to it. Thank you!
- 08.07.2012
Do you have some bitcoins from the mining and do you want to sell them for cheap? Add your offer to localbitcoins.com and find a buyer in your neighborhood!
- 11.06.2012
Follow pool's
page for recent updates and news!
- 05.02.2012
poclbm/GUI miner is affected by serious bug. If your miner is crashing on 'unexpected error' message, please follow miner forums for the newest versions.
- 26.01.2012
Pool is now supporting BIP 16 protocol extension, as described here. It is just internal change on the Bitcoin network, miners don't need to update anything.
- 08.11.2011
Implemented prioritization of long polling. Fast miners should expect lower stale ratio.
- 10.10.2011
Merged mining for Namecoins added. Please fill NMC address on your profile to start collecting Namecoins! Accounting isn't finished yet, but will come very soon.
- 03.10.2011
Long polling and NTime rolling features supported. Please update your miners!
- 01.09.2011
Bitcoin.cz is official sponsor of European Bitcoin conference 2011. See you on 25.-27. November in Prague!
- 26.03.2011
Article: How to setup pooled mining in Windows
- 17.02.2011
Pool switched to score-based rewarding system
- 14.02.2011
Second server added
Total hashrate at 60Ghash/s
- 19.01.2011
We're over 20 Ghash/s
- 20.12.2010
4000 Mhash/s barrier behind us
- 16.12.2010
First two blocks found
Over 1400 Mhash/s !
- 15.12.2010
Beta version released
~600 Mhash/s
Hall of Fame (TOP50 miners)
| Username | Found blocks | Hash rate |
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<User1350>
|
196 |
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<User43938>
|
139 |
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<User14002>
|
137 |
27041 Mhash/s |
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<User82096>
|
129 |
--- |
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slush (admin)
|
114 |
1558 Mhash/s |
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apscoin
|
108 |
133354 Mhash/s |
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<User309>
|
106 |
--- |
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firstcrypto
|
94 |
--- |
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pynz4a0xi0ec
|
81 |
--- |
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rhudock
|
73 |
--- |
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bitfury
|
72 |
--- |
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<User61567>
|
67 |
--- |
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m86
|
63 |
--- |
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<User99623>
|
55 |
35843 Mhash/s |
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<User412>
|
51 |
3292 Mhash/s |
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<User10905>
|
51 |
8556 Mhash/s |
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<User90168>
|
51 |
57459 Mhash/s |
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<User1435>
|
48 |
--- |
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painge
|
47 |
1262 Mhash/s |
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comboy
|
46 |
--- |
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onarchy
|
46 |
--- |
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aney1
|
45 |
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Steve
|
44 |
4292 Mhash/s |
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<User65540>
|
43 |
2524 Mhash/s |
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<User92570>
|
42 |
31583 Mhash/s |
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aistto
|
37 |
--- |
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jannarki
|
37 |
1898 Mhash/s |
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ecraigfields
|
37 |
2382 Mhash/s |
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<User77126>
|
37 |
23976 Mhash/s |
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m0mchil
|
36 |
1747 Mhash/s |
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robocoder
|
36 |
33937 Mhash/s |
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<User126605>
|
36 |
38199 Mhash/s |
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AxelMi2
|
35 |
--- |
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khiel
|
34 |
--- |
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monokl
|
33 |
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<User3290>
|
33 |
8846 Mhash/s |
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<User31906>
|
33 |
8205 Mhash/s |
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moolah2011
|
33 |
9274 Mhash/s |
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<User47272>
|
33 |
9629 Mhash/s |
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eugentib
|
33 |
482 Mhash/s |
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<User126176>
|
33 |
20054 Mhash/s |
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<User10>
|
32 |
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OVerLoRDI
|
32 |
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<User1238>
|
32 |
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littleshop
|
32 |
1499 Mhash/s |
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da2ce7
|
31 |
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<User43>
|
31 |
4 Mhash/s |
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libertypatriot
|
31 |
2395 Mhash/s |
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<User53478>
|
31 |
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exixx
|
31 |
6846 Mhash/s |