今天，来自老牌比特币矿池BTCC的一则《无限期停止运营》的公告，让币圈的参与者感到无限唏嘘，其提到：
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“今天，我们遗憾地宣布，由于业务调整，BTCC矿池将于11月15日关停所有挖矿服务器，11月30日起无限期停止运营。为避免造成不必要的损失，请各位矿工们于11月15日前完成算力切换，并于11月20日前绑定挖矿收益地址，我们会及时发放所有矿工的收益。币圈的很多老人可能对这则公告的发布感到吃惊，其实我们从近期BTCC矿池的表现，就可以了解到这个决定其实并不令人费解，根据btc.com提供的数据显示，近一个月以来，BTCC矿池挖到的比特币区块数实则为0，而3个月以来，其挖到的区块数为72个[1]，而BTCC矿池在其最辉煌的时候，曾经是比特币网络第三大矿池。我们坚信以比特币为代表的数字加密资产和区块链行业会继续发展完善。诸位，念念不忘，必有回响，我们江湖再见！”
We are convinced that the digital encryption asset and block chain industry, represented by bitcoin, will continue to develop. You remember, there will be a resonance, and we will see each other again."
(图片截自：btc.com)
(photo taken from: btc.com)
而在文章的其余部分，笔者将盘点一下历史上一些具有代表性的比特币矿池，其中有世界上最早的比特币矿池，中国最早的比特币矿池，有曾经最具统治力的比特币矿池，还有当下最具竞争力的两大比特币矿池。
In the rest of the article, I will take an inventory of some of the historically representative bitcoin ponds, including the world's oldest bitcoin ponds, China's earliest bitcoin ponds, the most dominant bitcoin ponds and the two most competitive bitcoins in the world.
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首个比特币矿池，如今占据第3的位置?
The first bitcoin pond, now in its third position?
回到2010年11月27日，总部位于捷克首都布拉格的SatoshiLabs公司成立了世界上第一个比特币矿池，其创始人Marek Palatinus曾在接受巴比特采访时表示：
Back on 27 November 2010, Satoshi Labs, based in Prague, Czech capital, established the world's first bitcoin pond, whose founder, Marek Palatinus, in an interview with Babbitt, said:
“SlushPool创立于2010年底，当时我正用自己的电脑挖矿，然后意识到独立挖矿的方式将很快会无利可图。值得庆幸的是我想到了一个解决方法，因此我创建了一个可以让挖矿者们联合起来，集中资源和按比例分享利润的系统，那就是为什么这个方法叫做“pooled mining”（可理解为联合挖矿）。”[2]
根据slushpool.com网站提供的信息显示，当前slushpool矿池的算力达到了5.471 ?Eh/s[3]，约占全网算力的10.2%，当前全网排名第三，而其矿池的活跃用户数为16236名。
According to the Slushpool.com website, the current slushpool pool has reached 5.471?Eh/s[4]，而GHash.IO之所以能够成为矿池届的巨头，与其不收取矿池费用有着很大的关系。
GHash.IO was established in July 2013 during its peak period (July 2014), when it once exceeded the 51 per cent threshold value of the entire network, when it triggered community concerns about 51 per cent of the attacks and, under strong community appeals, some miners withdrew from the GHash.io pool before returning to the 42 per cent computing level of the whole network ;
然而，到了2016年10月份，这一曾经最具统治力的比特币矿池，却在鱼池（F2Pool）、蚁池（AntPool）、BTCC等新兴矿池的冲击下被迫选择关闭。
However, by October 2016, this once the most dominant bitcoin pond had been forced to close under the shock of emerging ponds such as fish ponds (F2Pool), antPool and BTCC.
事后有人分析，在不断遭受大规模的拒绝服务（DoS）攻击，再加上熊市币价下跌这一因素，导致该矿池的运营商选择停止了GHash.IO的运营[5]。
It was subsequently analysed that the continued massive denial of services (DoS) attack, combined with the factor of the fall in the price of the bear market, had led the operators of the pond to choose to stop operating [6]。
In April 2013, the fish pond (f2pool), created jointly by Wang Jun and Mao World Bank (known as the octopus), was the first-formulated bitcoin pond in China. In the era of the GHash.IO pond, the fish pond was the only Chinese pond with which it could counterbalance, and in the second half of 14 it became the world's largest bitcoin pond 截至发稿时，根据鱼池官网提供的信息显示，该矿池的实时算力为4.539Eh/s，排全网第6的位置，而其采用的是PPS+结算模式，即在传统的 PPS 结算方式基础上，增加了矿工费的分配。而其收取的费率，则是2.5% 的PPS+ 。 At the time of publication, based on [7]。 AntPool, on the other hand, supported PPS, PPS+, PPLNS, SOLO in a variety of mining patterns 
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