Rawpool.

Rawpool is a mining poolMining poolA group of miners who share the work of finding blocks and split the rewards, so each gets paid steadily instead of rarely. from China. It says it was founded in February 2018, first as a pool for Bitcoin Cash, a separate coin, and that it later became part of a company called Bit-Rock. In October 2018 Northern Bitcoin AG, a German mining company, named Rawpool’s owner as Growfund, Inc., a US company that also owned a wallet and an exchange, and its founder and chief executive as David Li. In mid-September that year, it said, Rawpool had found 29% of Bitcoin Cash’s blocks.

Rawpool found 29 Bitcoin blocks from August to October 2018, the first, 538,729, on 27 August, and then none until February 2021. In 2021 it found 463, as many as 120 in July, nearly 3% of that month’s blocks. None of those carries Rawpool’s name; mempool.space recognises them by the addresses they paid. It pays miners by full pay per share, or FPPS: a set amount for each piece of work they send, including a share of the transaction fees, paid once a day whether or not the pool finds a block. So each Rawpool block’s first transaction paid the whole reward to one Rawpool address, and the pool paid its miners separately. These are payments to the pool’s miners, separate from the transactions confirmed inside the block.

Its last credited block, 699,330, came on 6 September 2021, and Rawpool hasn’t announced a closure. Its own site still reported Bitcoin mining power afterwards, about 2% of all Bitcoin mining in April 2022 and some in October 2024, but no later block has paid one of its known addresses, so mempool.space credits it with none. On 26 October 2026 its site showed no Bitcoin mining power, while its Litecoin pool still had 284 miners. In March 2025 boerst, who runs stratum.work, a site that records the work pools send their miners, published what servers under the names of AntPool, Rawpool and three other pools had sent for the same block. The researcher 0xB10C then counted Rawpool among the pools he calls “AntPool & friends”, while noting that which pools belong to the group can only be assumed.