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==History==
* '''Late 2010: ''' [[Slush Pool|Slush]] launched the first mining pool
* '''2011–2013: ''' The era of deepbit, which at its peak, shares up to 45% of the network hashrate
* '''2013–2014: ''' Since the introduction of ASIC, and deepbit failed support the newer [[stratum protocol]], [[Ghash.io|GHash.IO]] replaced deepbit became the largest
* '''2014–2015: ''' Rise of China. [[F2Pool]] which launched in May 2013, replaced GHash.IO becoming the largest mining pool
* '''2016–2018: ''' Rise of [[Bitmain]] and its AntPool. Bitmain also controls a few other smaller pools like BTC.com and ViaBTC.
* '''2019–: ''' The launch of Poolin. Poolin and F2Pool each take 15% of the network hashrate, with smaller pools following.
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