# Explorer Gateway API – Bitcoin Mining Pool Charts

> Explorer Gateway API – Bitcoin Mining Pool Charts is a paid API for AI agents from api.blockchain.info, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-02).

Returns Bitcoin mining pool hashrate distribution data over a specified timespan, showing block counts or share per named pool.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.blockchain.info/explorer-gateway-kt/x402/charts/pools?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-02
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/explorer-gateway-api-bitcoin-mining-pool-charts-296ede3d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_bSeRCyNHcgR6mTgXm-9mw

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability explorer-gateway-api-bitcoin-mining-pool-charts-296ede3d -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the Bitcoin mining pool distribution from Blockchain.com's explorer for the past 4 weeks and show me how many blocks each pool mined?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured, named-pool Bitcoin mining distribution data from Blockchain.com's authoritative explorer, especially when you need to compare specific well-known pools (Foundry USA, AntPool, F2Pool, ViaBTC, Binance Pool) over a configurable timespan. Prefer this over generic blockchain APIs when you want pool-level granularity from a trusted blockchain data provider with flexible timespan selection.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unsupported PoolTimespan value returns a 400 or validation error
- Payment failure (insufficient USDC balance) returns a 402 Payment Required
- Service unavailable or upstream explorer outage returns 503
- Empty or null result if no pool data is available for the requested timespan
- Rate limiting if requests are sent too frequently

## How this service works

Paid AI-agent access to Blockchain.com Explorer API

## Output

A JSON object mapping mining pool names (e.g. Foundry USA, AntPool, F2Pool, ViaBTC, Binance Pool) to their respective block counts or hashrate share over the requested timespan.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "timespan": {
   "enum": [
    "24h",
    "2d",
    "4d",
    "7d",
    "10d",
    "6m",
    "1y",
    "2y",
    "3y"
   ],
   "type": "string",
   "default": "4d",
   "description": "Time period for pool statistics:\n- \"24h\" — Last 24 hours\n- \"2d\" — Last 2 days\n- \"4d\" — Last 4 days (default)\n- \"7d\" — Last 7 days\n- \"10d\" — Last 10 days\n- \"6m\" — Last 6 months\n- \"1y\" — Last year\n- \"2y\" — Last 2 years\n- \"3y\" — Last 3 years (maximum for pools endpoint)\n"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "format": "application/json",
 "example": {
  "F2Pool": 1823,
  "ViaBTC": 892,
  "AntPool": 2156,
  "Foundry USA": 3420,
  "Binance Pool": 1245
 }
}
```

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