Antpool

Basics

• Founded in 2013 (This post says 2014)

• Chinese mining pool run by Bitmain
• From this post (9-2019) by Bitcoin.com:

"History: Another Bitmain-owned operation, Antpool is Jihan Wu’s original mining pool. It provides an array of advanced tools for experienced miners, particularly those who are mining at scale. Sub-account mining to a depth of three levels and anonymous mining are all supported, along with same-day payouts.

Trivia: Despite being accused of contributing to mining centralization, Bitmain launched Antpool in 2014 with a “commitment to help decentralize the bitcoin network … and put the majority of hashing power into the hands of consumers.”"

• Coins mined: BTC, BCH, LTC, ETH, ETC, ZEC, DASH, SCC, XMC, BTM
• Was part of Hong Kong consensus
• Was part of the Chinese miners that signed a statement that they want 8MB blocks. Signatories included the large mining companies F2pool, BTCChina, Huobi, and BW.

Team, partners, etc.

• Jihan Wu; ex-founder
• Micree Zhan; founder and kept it when Wu was bought out (30-12-2020).
• Partner with Rootstok, Maxime Coin (MXM)
• Is listed as a 'Cooperative Partner' on the website of Monero Classic (9-2019).
• Initial backer (22-1-2020) of the IFP for BCH.
• Announced it has invested $10 million in the proof-of-work Ethereum Classic ecosystem and plans to invest more (27-7-2022). This was kicked off by the looming Ethereum merge making PoW Ethereum miners obsolete there.