Review on AntPool by gregori cordova
controversial but highly efficient pool mining
This company has the historical milestone of the largest blocks mined. This is a great point in favor, to obtain new users who seek to obtain benefits with this way of generating bitcoins. It also has 22% of the speed of the hash in the network, which increases the possibility of mining more bitcoins than all the competition. But not everything is rosy, there is a lot of controversy regarding this mining pool, as it is suspected that they have activated a mining method called asicboost that supposedly damages the bitcoin network and have been accused by other companies that are experts in the matter.
Pros
- it has the record of being the largest mining pool in the world with a hash speed of 22% of the entire network
- Their website is one of the best in this field: easy, fast and comfortable
- they have a 2-step authentication factor, and several quite powerful security measures.
Cons
- You can only make one transaction per day if the amount is greater than 0.001 bitcoin.
- It has been accused by several companies of using elements that damage the bitcoin network.
