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@hszon hszon commented Aug 20, 2026

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Adds PoolBTC (https://poolbtc.io), an active Fractal Bitcoin mining pool whose blocks are currently attributed to "Unknown".

PoolBTC mines Fractal from four stratum servers (EU x3, UAE x1) running ckpool, with a combined ~130 PH/s at the time of writing. In a sample of the 60 most recent blocks, 7 were mined by PoolBTC — roughly 12% of blocks in that window.

Verification

Each tag below is tied to the coinbase payout address in vout[0] of a real block, so all of it can be confirmed independently on-chain:

Block Coinbase tag vout[0] payout address Currently shown as
2044907 /minersme-fb/ 15mBafndntQeqSeuGCLfyb2mvkq9t2ABGX Unknown
2044946 /fbpool.io/ 1Fy3CH3vsKNK6FWLX3ucUMqraduGJtrc3Y Unknown
2044940 /solo mined fb/ bc1q6mlnj9zj0dy2l6zrzwssjzh3ujgtanr62fj0ny Unknown

More recent PoolBTC blocks, all currently "Unknown": 2044973, 2044955, 2044950, 2044948, 2044939.

Coinbase scriptSig of block 2044907, ASCII rendering:

..3......j.........ckpool./minersme-fb/

Notes

  • id 1020 follows this file's convention of allocating 1001+ to Fractal-native pools (FairPool 1001 … PrimeTriad 1019), leaving 1–154 for pools inherited from upstream.
  • Three addresses — one per server group. Each is the btcaddress configured in that ckpool instance and each appears as vout[0] in blocks that server has mined.
  • Legacy tags retained. The pool standardised on /PoolBTC/ on 2026-08-20; minersme-fb and fbpool.io are listed so previously mined blocks attribute correctly instead of remaining "Unknown".
  • solo mined fb deliberately omitted — it is PoolBTC's (server EU-FB-3, verified above) but is a generic ckpool-style string another operator could adopt. Those blocks are matched by the bc1q6mlnj9z... payout address instead, which is unambiguous.

Slug auto-generates as poolbtc, giving https://mempool.fractalbitcoin.io/mining/pool/poolbtc

Happy to supply a pool logo if that is handled somewhere other than this repo — frontend/src/resources/mining-pools/ in the mempool fork only contains default.svg.

PoolBTC (https://poolbtc.io) mines Fractal from four ckpool servers and is
currently attributed to Unknown. Tags and payout addresses are each verified
against vout[0] of real blocks (2044907, 2044946, 2044940).

id 1020 follows the 1001+ convention used for Fractal-native pools.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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