Bitminter was a Bitcoin mining pool.
Roughly 1% of the bitcoins in circulation came from Bitminter.
In the beginning mining was difficult. Bitminter wanted to give people
an easier introduction to Bitcoin and mining. That mission has been fulfilled.
Thank you to everyone who mined with us over the years.
We hope you enjoyed it and that you are still part of
the cryptocurrency community.
For a new mining pool, check out the XBTO mining pool at https://pool.xbtodigital.io/
Our tech and expertise lives on there.
Best wishes for the future from support@bitminter.com
PS: If you forgot to cash out then contact us immediately on the email address above.
Final tally:
Timeline:
2021-07-02: Bitminter website was shut down
2021-06-01: Intended website shutdown date - shutdown postponed
2020-07-01: Mining operations halted
2020-06-01: Shutdown announced by direct email to users, Bitcointalk and social media - see Bitcointalk post
2020-05-11: Third Bitcoin halving, reducing block reward from 12.5 to 6.25 BTC
2019-09 to 2020-05: Bitminter hashpower dropped very low - attempts to bring in big miners were unsuccessful
2019-08-12: Last Bitcoin block (#589801) mined by Bitminter
2019-08-01: Bitminter reached 700 000 users
2017-07-03: Bitminter reached 500 000 users
2016-07-09: Second Bitcoin halving, reducing block reward from 25 to 12.5 BTC
2014-03-16: Bitminter reached 250 000 users
2014: 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 users
2013-05: Peak mining activity; approx. 10% of the world's Bitcoin hashpower was mining with Bitminter, sometimes producing up to 20% of the daily blocks and bitcoins
2013-01: 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 BTC
2012-09-11: Bitminter reached 10 000 users
2012: 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 this
2011-11-04: Merged mining of namecoin (NMC) started
2011-10-24: Bitminter reached 1000 users
2011-07-20: Bitminter reached 100 users
2011-07-03: First Bitcoin block (#134500) mined by Bitminter
2011-06-26: Bitminter launched; the user-friendly alternative with easy-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 command line was. The original idea for Bitminter was for an easy-to-use graphical mining client that anyone could use. This was for mining on graphics cards initially. As client development neared completion the project turned into a full mining pool instead of just the client.