Minergate Review: Offers both pool and merged mining and cloud mining services for Bitcoin. Bitcoin mining software monitors this input and output of your miner while also displaying statistics such as the speed of your miner, hashrate, fan speed and the temperature. At this time, Antpool keeps bitcoins form transaction fees for itself, which are not shared with miners who have hash power pointed toward the pool. It can be argued that these rates prevent the service from being usable for small-time and big-volume users. Among its main features is that it configures your miner and provides performance graphs for easy visualization of your mining activity. Without miners, Bitcoin would be vulnerable and easy to attack.