BytePool

https://bytepool.com

miner-validator

BytePool (bytepool.com)

BytePool was a Proof-of-Work (PoW) cryptocurrency mining pool brand that, according to contemporary reporting, was operated by Valarhash, a mining entity based in Sichuan, China, which also ran the pool 1THash.top. (financemagnates.com)

Role / category (miner–validator)

• Miner (PoW): BytePool is described in sources as a mining pool for PoW chains (notably Bitcoin, and also Ethereum in historical descriptions). (financemagnates.com)
• Validator (PoS): In the usual Bitcoin/Ethereum terminology, a “validator” refers to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) participation; BytePool is not primarily documented as a PoS validator operation in the cited sources, but as a hashrate aggregation service (mining pool). (financemagnates.com)

Historical notes (what it is known for)

• In April 2020, BytePool was widely reported as planning to shut down its Bitcoin mining pool operations ahead of the May 2020 Bitcoin halving (when the block subsidy dropped from 12.5 BTC to 6.25 BTC). (financemagnates.com)
• At its peak, BytePool and 1THash were reported to have been among the top-ten Bitcoin mining pools and collectively accounted for roughly ~9% of Bitcoin network hashrate. (financemagnates.com)

Current status of the website

When attempting to access bytepool.com directly, the site did not load in the retrieval session (tool returned an error), so the current operator/status of the domain cannot be confirmed from the site itself here; the description above therefore reflects historical attributions in third-party reporting rather than a fresh statement from bytepool.com. (financemagnates.com)