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⛏ SHA256 Mining
Latest news
4 Nov pinned NEW
IMPORTANT
You have to set a bitcoin address, and a coin payout address before you can mine coins
27 Oct
Merge Mine with Voidcoin
VoidCoin is coming back – merge-mine it with Bitcoin on the same miner, alongside all the other merge-mined coins (All coins plan).
November offer: every solo coin is FREE – 0% fee until 30 November, and DigiByte is free for good. See the coins, easiest first →

Solo mining for Bitaxes and small miners

Mine Bitcoin and a growing list of merge-mined and revived SHA-256 coins at the same time. Every block pays straight to your own address – nothing is held by the pool.

Peak hashrate (24h)
26.26 TH/s
Miners (last 24h)
52
Blocks found
293

Plans

Free

£0

  • Solo mine Bitcoin
  • 2% pool fee, taken inside the block
  • 98% of any block you find goes straight to your wallet
Start free

No Bitcoin address? Get one free here.

Coins

👉 Click any coin to see exactly what to type into your miner.

Aux-Pow coins

These are merge-mined coins: one Bitcoin address mines Bitcoin and all of these coins at the same time, for free! The extra coins are part of the All coins plan.

CoinTypeTotal pool hashrateCoin diffBlocks foundChance of a block in 7 days
one 1.2 TH/s miner

Non Aux-Pow coins

These coins are mined on a coin-by-coin basis: each miner mines one coin at a time, by pointing it at that coin's own port. Part of the All coins plan.

CoinTypeTotal pool hashrateCoin diffBlocks foundChance of a block in 7 days
one 1.2 TH/s miner

Chance of a block in 7 days: the chance that a single 1.2 TH/s miner (about one Bitaxe) finds at least one block of that coin within a week, at today's difficulty. Blocks found: blocks found by miners on this pool.

How to connect

Point your miner at:

PortMinesWho
stratum.shears.co.uk:3402 Bitcoin (BTC) + Unobtanium (UNO), SHA256Coin (S256), Doichain (DOI), SixEleven (611), Myriad (XMY), Bitcoin Vault (BTCV), VargaMesh (VMESH), CoiledCoin II (CLC2), Ixcoin (IXC), Blockle (BLOCK)Everyone (extra coins for All coins plan)
stratum.shears.co.uk:3410 ReservistenCoin (RVC)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3420 Resatoshi (RST)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3430 Bitcoin Atom (BCA)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3440 Bitcoin Gold BTGS (BTGS)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3450 Bitcoin Oil (BTCO)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3460 Palladium (PLM)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3470 Aureus (32% premined) (AURE)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3480 Perbug (44% premined) (PERBUG)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3490 Digitalcoin (DGC)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3500 Tarcoin (20% premined) (TAR)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3530 Smileycoin (SMLY)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3540 Auroracoin (AUR)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3550 Cascoin (CAS)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3560 Titcoin (TIT)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3580 NewBitcoin (NBTC)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3590 Xerocoin (XERO)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3600 Bitfinite (BFN)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3610 6bit (6BIT)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3620 DebitMyData (DMD)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3630 Friotaioch (FRIO)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3640 Voidcoin (VOID)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3650 Bullion256 (BULL)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3660 Susucoin (SUSU)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3690 Polcoin (POL)Everyone
stratum.shears.co.uk:3700 Embargocoin (EMB)Everyone
stratum.shears.co.uk:3710 Fixed Trade Coin (FXTC)Everyone
stratum.shears.co.uk:3720 Black Gold Coin (BGC)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3670 TwistCoin (TWIST)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3730 FreeCash (FCH)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3680 OrdexCoin (ORDEX)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3740 Vexta (VTX)All coins plan
stratum.shears.co.uk:3760 Bitcoin Cash (BCH)Everyone
stratum.shears.co.uk:3770 DigiByte (DGB)Everyone
stratum.shears.co.uk:3780 DigiByte II (DGB2)All coins plan

Username: your Bitcoin address (add .name to label a device, e.g. bc1q….bitaxe1). Password: anything.

Bitaxe setup in 3 steps

  1. Open your Bitaxe's settings. Type its IP address (shown on its little screen) into a web browser on the same Wi-Fi, then open Settings.
  2. Fill in four boxes:
    • Stratum URL: stratum.shears.co.uk – just that, no stratum+tcp://
    • Stratum Port: 3402 for Bitcoin + all the Aux-Pow coins (or another coin's port from the table above)
    • Stratum User: your Bitcoin address followed by .bitaxe1
    • Stratum Password: x
  3. Save and restart the Bitaxe. Within a minute or two it shows up on your dashboard.

Several Bitaxes? Give each its own name: .bitaxe1, .bitaxe2, … They all count towards the same account.

Recent blocks

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