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⛏ SHA256 Mining

Low-difficulty SHA-256 coins for Bitaxe

On Bitcoin, a Bitaxe is a lottery ticket. On the coins below it can find real blocks – on 35 of them, one Bitaxe can expect a block within a month, some within hours.

Every coin here is SHA-256, so any Bitaxe, NerdQaxe, Avalon Nano or ASIC can mine it. It's solo mining: when your miner finds a block, the reward goes straight to your own address inside the block – we never hold your coins. The list updates itself every few minutes from our own nodes.

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The coins, easiest first

CoinDifficultyOne Bitaxe finds a blockWho / feePort
SUSU Susucoin
 9,416 every minute or so FREE until 30 Nov, 0% fee 3660
VOID Voidcoin
 15,566 every minute or so v2.1.0 coming soon: merge-mined with Bitcoin from block 56,500 - mining paused until release 3640
TIT Titcoin
 27,211 every 2 minutes FREE until 30 Nov, 0% fee 3560
RVC ReservistenCoin
 73,234 every 4 minutes FREE until 30 Nov, 0% fee 3410
PLM Palladium
 152,825 every 9 minutes FREE until 30 Nov, 0% fee 3460
RST Resatoshi
 492,745 every 29 minutes FREE until 30 Nov, 0% fee 3420
TWIST TwistCoin
 612,966 every 37 minutes New coin (Aug 2026). Difficulty only adjusts every 144 blocks, so block times can swing. 3670
FCH FreeCash
 658,642 every 39 minutes FREE until 30 Nov, 0% fee 3730
BGC Black Gold Coin
 782,432 every 47 minutes FREE until 30 Nov, 0% fee 3720
BULL Bullion256
 788,413 every 47 minutes FREE until 30 Nov, 0% fee 3650
CLC2 CoiledCoin II
 1.04 M every 62 minutes FREE until 16 Nov, 0% fee merge-mined
with Bitcoin
DMD DebitMyData
 1.16 M every 69 minutes FREE until 30 Nov, 0% fee 3620
ORDEX OrdexCoin
 1.23 M every 74 minutes FREE until 30 Nov, 0% fee 3680
611 SixEleven
 1.59 M every 1.6 hours Subscribers, 0% fee merge-mined
with Bitcoin
DGB2 DigiByte II
 1.65 M every 1.6 hours FREE until 30 Nov, 0% fee 3780
NBTC NewBitcoin
 1.70 M every 1.7 hours FREE until 30 Nov, 0% fee 3580
PERBUG Perbug (44% premined)
 1.94 M every 1.9 hours Reviving: per-block difficulty from block 75,725, merge-mining from 80,000 (node v30.4.2) 3480
SMLY Smileycoin
 2.91 M every 2.9 hours FREE until 30 Nov, 0% fee 3530
DGC Digitalcoin
 3.03 M every 3 hours FREE until 30 Nov, 0% fee 3490
BTCO Bitcoin Oil
 3.07 M every 3.1 hours FREE until 30 Nov, 0% fee 3450
CAS Cascoin
 3.41 M every 3.4 hours FREE until 30 Nov, 0% fee 3550
BLOCK Blockle
 4.53 M every 4.5 hours Subscribers, 0% fee merge-mined
with Bitcoin
XERO Xerocoin
 4.66 M every 4.6 hours FREE until 30 Nov, 0% fee 3590
AUR Auroracoin
 8.82 M every 8.8 hours FREE until 30 Nov, 0% fee 3540
AURE Aureus (32% premined)
 10.04 M every 10 hours FREE until 30 Nov, 0% fee 3470
BFN Bitfinite
 21.36 M every 21 hours FREE until 30 Nov, 0% fee 3600
FRIO Friotaioch
 27.14 M every 27 hours FREE until 30 Nov, 0% fee 3630
6BIT 6bit
 38.76 M every 39 hours Stuck: waiting for difficulty change at block 34,272 (big miner left) 3610
VTX Vexta
 77.21 M every 3 days FREE until 30 Nov, 0% fee 3740
BCA Bitcoin Atom
 105.33 M every 4 days FREE until 30 Nov, 0% fee 3430
VMESH VargaMesh
 169.63 M every 7 days Subscribers, 0% fee merge-mined
with Bitcoin
TAR Tarcoin (20% premined)
 239.24 M every 10 days FREE until 30 Nov, 0% fee 3500
DGB DigiByte
 443.32 M every 18 days Free for everyone, 0% fee 3770
BTGS Bitcoin Gold BTGS
 497.51 M every 21 days FREE until 30 Nov, 0% fee 3440
IXC Ixcoin
 613.11 M every 25 days Subscribers, 0% fee merge-mined
with Bitcoin
UNO Unobtanium
 805.78 M every 33 days Subscribers, 0% fee merge-mined
with Bitcoin
S256 SHA256Coin
 1.45 G every 2 months Subscribers, 0% fee merge-mined
with Bitcoin
BTCV Bitcoin Vault
 3.82 G every 5 months Subscribers, 0% fee merge-mined
with Bitcoin
XMY Myriad
 4.29 G every 6 months Subscribers, 0% fee merge-mined
with Bitcoin
DOI Doichain
 4.92 G every 7 months Subscribers, 0% fee merge-mined
with Bitcoin
BCH Bitcoin Cash
 504.07 G every 57 years 2% for free members, 0% for subscribers 3760
BTC Bitcoin
 148.36 T every 16,827 years Everyone, 2% fee 3402

"Finds a block…" is the average for one 1.2 TH/s Bitaxe at today's difficulty. It's luck: you may find one much sooner, or later. Difficulty changes as other miners come and go. Click a coin for its own page.

Got an ESP32 “NerdMiner”? POL, EMB, FXTC have their own low-difficulty ports in our ESP32 corner.

How to start (5 minutes)

  1. Sign up free with your Bitcoin address – that's your username on every port.
  2. On your dashboard, add a payout address for each coin you want to mine (no wallet? we can make you one).
  3. Point your miner at stratum+tcp://stratum.shears.co.uk:PORT using the port from the table, username = your Bitcoin address, password = x.
  4. Merge-mined coins come along with Bitcoin on the main port – one miner, several coins at once.

Why low difficulty matters

Difficulty is how hard it is to find the next block. Bitcoin's is so high that a single Bitaxe would wait thousands of years on average. Small SHA-256 coins have far lower difficulty, so the same Bitaxe finds blocks in hours, days or weeks.

Are these coins worth money?

Some are traded on exchanges, many are small community coins worth very little. Mine them for the fun of finding blocks and for helping small coins stay alive – not as an investment. We keep our own nodes running for every coin listed.

Coin pages

Bitcoin (BTC) · Unobtanium (UNO) · SHA256Coin (S256) · Doichain (DOI) · SixEleven (611) · Myriad (XMY) · Bitcoin Vault (BTCV) · VargaMesh (VMESH) · CoiledCoin II (CLC2) · Ixcoin (IXC) · Blockle (BLOCK) · ReservistenCoin (RVC) · Resatoshi (RST) · Bitcoin Atom (BCA) · Bitcoin Gold BTGS (BTGS) · Bitcoin Oil (BTCO) · Palladium (PLM) · Aureus (32% premined) (AURE) · Perbug (44% premined) (PERBUG) · Digitalcoin (DGC) · Tarcoin (20% premined) (TAR) · Smileycoin (SMLY) · Auroracoin (AUR) · Cascoin (CAS) · Titcoin (TIT) · NewBitcoin (NBTC) · Xerocoin (XERO) · Bitfinite (BFN) · 6bit (6BIT) · DebitMyData (DMD) · Friotaioch (FRIO) · Voidcoin (VOID) · Bullion256 (BULL) · Susucoin (SUSU) · Polcoin (POL) · Embargocoin (EMB) · Fixed Trade Coin (FXTC) · Black Gold Coin (BGC) · TwistCoin (TWIST) · FreeCash (FCH) · OrdexCoin (ORDEX) · Vexta (VTX) · Bitcoin Cash (BCH) · DigiByte (DGB) · DigiByte II (DGB2)