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Author: Admin | 2025-04-27
Bringin big miners were unsuccessful2019-08-12: Last Bitcoin block (#589801) mined by Bitminter2019-08-01: Bitminter reached 700 000 users2017-07-03: Bitminter reached 500 000 users2016-07-09: Second Bitcoin halving, reducing block reward from 25 to 12.5 BTC2014-03-16: Bitminter reached 250 000 users2014: Small ASIC miners that connect to a PC's USB-port could no longer compete with the big stand-alone ASIC miners. This made the Bitminter (PC) client software obsolete, but Bitminter went on as a mining pool.2013-08-27: Bitminter reached 100 000 users2013-05: Peak mining activity; approx. 10% of the world's Bitcoin hashpowerwas mining with Bitminter, sometimes producing up to 20% of the daily blocks and bitcoins2013-01: The first ASIC mining machines began shipping to customers. During 2013 support for a few models was added to the Bitminter client software.2012-11-28: First Bitcoin halving, reducing block reward from 50 to 25 BTC2012-09-11: Bitminter reached 10 000 users2012: During 2012 some FPGA mining machines were sold commercially. Support for a few models was added to the Bitminter client software.2011-11-07: Bitminter began sending all mining income to address 19PkHafEN18mquJ9ChwZt5YEFoCdPP5vYB - 57 blocks were mined with individual addresses prior to this2011-11-04: Merged mining of namecoin (NMC) started2011-10-24: Bitminter reached 1000 users2011-07-20: Bitminter reached 100 users2011-07-03: First Bitcoin block (#134500) mined by Bitminter2011-06-26: Bitminter launched; the user-friendly alternative witheasy-to-use mining software for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.2011-03: Development of the Bitminter software began. Mining was technically difficult in the early days. A text-based mining client had to be run from the command line. Most people didn't know what a
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