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Mining pools F2Pool, Poolin and Antpool have launched their ETHW (EthereumPoW) mining pools, according to their respective websites, while a few other large mining pools have also said they would support the mining of the fork token.
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Fast facts
- F2Pool said on Thursday the remaining hashrate in its $ETH pool is redirected to its ETHW mining pool. Antpool, affiliated with Chinese mining rig giant Bitmain, also said it has launched its ETHW mining pool.
- Poolin has also made available its mining pool for ETHW, according to its website and a sales manager.
- ETHW, whose mainnet launched on Thursday, said on Wednesday in a blog post that at least 23 mining pools will support ETHW mining.
- The Ethereum network “Merge” was completed on Thursday, but some miners have created a fork ETHW to keep running the previous network.
- F2Pool is the largest ETHW mining pool by hashrate as of 11 a.m. on Friday Hong Kong time, followed by Woolypooly.com and 2miners.com, data from MiningPoolStats showed.
- Over the past year, F2Pool was the second-largest Ethereum mining pool by block share, while Poolin came in ninth, according to data from BTC.com.
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