Pool directory · since 2021
MARA Pool
Operated by the listed miner MARA — primarily the company’s own hashrate, open to others; scale follows its corporate fleet.
The longer story
MARA Pool is what happens when the largest listed bitcoin miner runs its own pool: primarily MARA’s corporate hashrate, open to third parties, with scale that tracks the company’s fleet. Pointing here means your payout counterparty is a NASDAQ-listed company with audited books.
It suits miners who value that corporate accountability. The pool exists to serve MARA first — third-party features and community tooling are not the priority, and its history includes a brief, abandoned experiment with transaction filtering worth knowing about.
Quick answers
- How does MARA Pool pay miners?
- MARA Pool uses FPPS — the pool pays expected value per share including fees, so the pool carries block-finding variance, not you.
- How long has MARA Pool been operating?
- MARA Pool has operated since 2021 (United States) — in mining, payout track record is the trust signal that matters most.
- Is MARA Pool transparent, and does it support Lightning payouts?
- Its accounting is conventional-custodial: you trust the operator’s numbers, as with most large pools. Payouts are on-chain only.
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