BCMonster FAQ

BCMonster is a multi-coin SHA-256 solo mining pool that has been running since 2016. It supports Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), DigiByte (DGB), Peercoin (PPC), Bitcoin II (BC2), Bitcoin Cash II (BCH2), Namecoin (NMC), and Fractal Bitcoin (FB).

You point your SHA-256 miner at BCMonster's stratum server using your wallet address as the username. Set the password to x for pool mining (shared rewards) or m=solo for solo mining (full block reward if you find it) — works on all coins. BCMonster handles all node infrastructure, block submission, and payouts at a flat 1.5% fee on all coins, both modes.

No account creation needed. Your wallet address IS your account. Just point your miner at BCMonster using your wallet address as the username, and your dashboard appears automatically at bcmonster.com/worker.html?address=YOUR_WALLET.

To track earnings, receive payouts, and access cross-device features, register your wallet in the Wallet panel (the wallet icon on the dashboard). This links a display name and PIN to your address.

BCMonster charges a 1.5% fee on all mining — both pool and solo. There are no hidden fees, no withdrawal fees, and no deposit fees. The fee is taken from block rewards before payout.

All coins on BCMonster use the SHA-256 algorithm, the same as Bitcoin — so any SHA-256 miner works on all of them.

BTC BCH DGB PPC BC2 BCH2 NMC FB

NMC and FB are merge-mined alongside BTC at no extra cost — your BTC miner earns both simultaneously.

You need a wallet address for each coin you want to receive payouts for. Here are reliable options:

• Bitcoin (BTC): Electrum, Exodus, or any hardware wallet (Ledger, Trezor)
• Bitcoin Cash (BCH): Electron Cash or Exodus
• DigiByte (DGB): Official DigiByte Wallet
• Peercoin (PPC): Peercoin Core Wallet
• Namecoin (NMC): Namecoin Core

Follow these steps to set up your wallet profile:

1. Go to bcmonster.com and enter your wallet address in the search bar, or your miner will auto-register when it connects.
2. Click your address or navigate to your worker dashboard. You'll see your miner's stats.
3. Click the wallet icon (top right) to open the Wallet Panel.
4. Enter a display name — this replaces your long address on leaderboards and chat.
5. Set a PIN to secure your profile and enable cross-device access.
6. Add wallet addresses for each coin you want payouts for, including NMC and FB for merge mining bonuses.

No — each coin requires its own native address. A Bitcoin address cannot receive Peercoin, for example. You need a separate wallet address for each coin you want to earn payouts on.

Your mining username (the address in your stratum URL) determines which coin's pool you're mining on. Your payout address for other coins is registered separately in your wallet profile.

For merge-mined coins (NMC and FB), you register separate NMC and FB addresses in your wallet panel — these are different from your BTC address.

Use your wallet address as the username, with an optional worker name after a dot:

Examples:

Worker names help you track multiple machines on your dashboard. Keep them short and descriptive (antminer, bitaxe, nerd1, etc).

All connections use bcmonster.com. Choose the port for your coin and tier:

Click Quick Connect on the dashboard for a full table with copy buttons for every coin and tier.

BCMonster lets every miner on every coin choose between pool and solo mode with a single password change — no port change, no reconfiguration, no waiting. The password field in your miner's stratum settings controls it:

This works on all coins and all ports. Whether you're mining BTC, BCH, DGB, PPC, BCH2, or BC2 — just change the password field. Your username (wallet address) and stratum URL stay exactly the same.

Examples for Bitcoin:

The same applies to every other coin — just swap in the right port and wallet address for your chosen coin. Same stratum host (bcmonster.com), same password trick.

Yes! Use the Pro ports (3334 for BTC, etc.) which start at vDiff 500K — required for NiceHash and MRR compatibility.

AsicBoost is automatically enabled on all ports if your rentals support version rolling.

Any SHA-256 miner works with BCMonster. That covers:

• Antminer series — S9, S17, S19, S21, and all variants
• Whatsminer — M20, M30, M50 series
• Canaan Avalon / AvalonMini / Nano 3
• Bitaxe — Ultra, Gamma, Hex, Supra. Open-source small ASIC miners using repurposed BM1366/BM1368/BM1370 chips. These are real SHA-256 ASICs, not ESP32 miners — connect via Standard ports (3333, etc.)
• NerdMiner / NMiner / JingleMiner — ESP32-based lottery miners with very low hashrate (~50–80 KH/s). Use the dedicated lottery ports (9999, etc.)
• NerdQAxe / NerdQAxe+ — small open-source ASIC miners using BM1366/BM1370 chips, similar to Bitaxe. Connect via Standard ports (3333 for BTC), not the lottery ports.
• NMiner, JingleMiner and other ESP32-based lottery miners
• USB Bitcoin miners (GekkoScience, etc.)
• Any miner supporting the Stratum protocol

NerdMiners and similar ESP32-based lottery miners use the dedicated low-diff lottery ports:

1. Connect to your NerdMiner/Bitaxe's web UI (usually at its IP address on your network)
2. Find the Pool / Stratum settings
3. Set the stratum URL to stratum+tcp://bcmonster.com:9999
4. Set username to your BTC wallet address (with optional worker name: bc1q...xyz.nerd1)
5. Set password to x
6. Save and reboot — your miner should connect within a minute

AsicBoost (BIP310 overt version rolling) is a mining optimization that can improve efficiency by up to 20% by reusing part of the block header computation.

BCMonster automatically enables it on all coins and all ports. If your ASIC supports version rolling (most modern Antminers, Whatsminers, and Bitaxe do), it will be used automatically — no configuration needed.

You can confirm it's working if your miner reports "version rolling" or "AsicBoost" in its status, or if your pool hashrate is slightly higher than your miner's rated hashrate.

Variable difficulty (vDiff) automatically adjusts the share difficulty sent to your miner based on its hashrate. This keeps your miner submitting shares at the right rate — not too fast, not too slow.

• Standard (port 3333) — starts at 15K, 5s target. Best for small ASICs and home miners.
• Pro (port 3334) — starts at 500K, 10s target. Required for NiceHash, MRR, and large ASICs (S19 XP and above).
• Lottery port (port 9999) — starts at 0.001, 10s target. Best for NerdMiner, NMiner, and other low-hashrate ESP32 devices. Bitaxe (ASIC-based) should use the Standard port 3333.

Payouts are processed automatically after a block is found and confirmed:

1. Your miner finds a block — congrats!
2. The block goes through a maturity period (confirmations) before the reward is spendable: BTC/BCH/BCH2/BC2/NMC/FB = 100 confirmations, DGB = 20, PPC = 500.
3. Once mature, the payment processor automatically sends the reward to your registered wallet address.
4. Transaction appears in your wallet within minutes of the payout cycle.

Yes, each coin has a minimum payout threshold to avoid tiny uneconomical transactions:

• BTC: 0.001 BTC
• BCH / BCH2: 0.01
• DGB: 10 DGB
• PPC: 1 PPC
• BC2: 1 BC2

Since BCMonster is a solo pool, you typically receive a full block reward (minus fee) in one payout rather than accumulating tiny amounts.

• Maturing: A block was found and confirmed on-chain, but the coinbase reward isn't spendable yet. It needs to reach the maturity threshold (e.g. 100 BTC blocks = ~16.7 hours).
• Ready: The reward has matured and is queued for the next payment cycle.
• Pending Payout: The total amount across Maturing + Ready stages.
• Total Paid: Lifetime earnings that have already been sent to your wallet.

Cryptocurrency transactions are irreversible. If you set an incorrect address and a payout is sent, those funds cannot be recovered.

To update your payout address: open your wallet panel, authenticate with your PIN, and update the coin address before your balance matures. Always double-check your address — paste it, don't type it.

Merge mining (AuxPoW) lets a SHA-256 miner simultaneously mine multiple coins without any extra hardware or electricity cost. The same proof of work that tries to find a Bitcoin block is also valid for finding Namecoin and Fractal Bitcoin blocks.

BCMonster automatically handles merge mining for BTC miners. When you mine BTC on BCMonster, you're simultaneously mining NMC and FB. If your work meets the difficulty for those coins, you earn a bonus block reward on top of your BTC earnings.

1. Make sure you're mining BTC on BCMonster (merge mining only works for BTC miners)
2. Get a Namecoin (NMC) address from Namecoin Core
3. Get a Fractal Bitcoin (FB) address from the Fractal Bitcoin wallet
4. Open your BCMonster wallet panel and navigate to Merge Mining Addresses
5. Add your NMC and FB addresses — payouts will flow automatically when blocks are found

If you don't register an NMC or FB address, any merge-mined rewards for those coins will accumulate in the pool wallet with no way to claim them. Don't leave money on the table!

NMC and FB are merge-mined — they don't have their own stratum ports or separate worker entries. Your BTC worker IS your NMC and FB worker simultaneously.

Merge coin earnings appear in your wallet panel under the NMC and FB sections, not as separate worker rows. The workers page only shows coins with direct stratum connections.

Pool mining: You share work with other BCMonster miners. When any miner on the pool finds a block, the reward is split proportionally based on shares contributed. More consistent income but smaller individual payouts.

Solo mining: You work independently. If YOUR miner finds the block, you keep the full reward (minus fee). Long stretches of zero income, but one win pays big.

Your probability of finding a Bitcoin block is: your hashrate ÷ network hashrate.

At current Bitcoin network difficulty (~1 ZH/s), a 100 TH/s ASIC would find a block on average once every ~100,000 years solo. But that doesn't mean it won't happen in the next 10 minutes — mining is random.

This is why coins with lower network difficulty are more interesting for small miners:

• DigiByte (DGB) — ~15 second blocks, lower difficulty. Much better odds.
• Peercoin (PPC) — smaller network, better solo odds.
• BC2 / BCH2 — very low difficulty, realistic for even small ASICs.

Your worker dashboard shows your current expected time to block for your selected coin.

The One Shot Olympics is BCMonster's leaderboard for small "lottery" miners — NerdMiners, Bitaxe, NMiner, JingleMiner, GoldShell, and any miner submitting shares above the minimum threshold.

Even if your tiny miner never finds a block, your best share ever submitted is tracked forever. The closer your best share is to network difficulty, the higher you rank. It's a fun way to track how lucky you've been without actually winning the jackpot.

Mining is the process of securing the Bitcoin network by solving a cryptographic puzzle. Miners repeatedly hash a block of transactions with a random number (nonce) until the result meets a target (difficulty). The first miner to find a valid hash wins the right to add that block to the blockchain and claims the block reward.

Think of it like a giant lottery where you buy tickets by doing math. More hashrate = more tickets per second = better chances. The difficulty automatically adjusts so blocks are found roughly every 10 minutes (for Bitcoin), regardless of total network hashrate.

SHA-256 (Secure Hash Algorithm 256-bit) is the cryptographic function used to secure Bitcoin and many other coins. It takes any input and produces a 256-bit output in a way that's easy to verify but practically impossible to reverse.

Because Bitcoin uses SHA-256, any hardware optimized for SHA-256 (an ASIC) can mine all SHA-256 coins, including everything on BCMonster. That's why a single Antminer can mine BTC, BCH, DGB, PPC, and more — they all use the same math.

Hashrate measures how many SHA-256 calculations your miner performs per second:

• H/s — hashes per second (very slow, old USB miners)
• KH/s — kilohashes = 1,000 H/s
• MH/s — megahashes = 1,000,000 H/s
• GH/s — gigahashes = 1 billion H/s
• TH/s — terahashes = 1 trillion H/s (modern ASICs)
• PH/s — petahashes = 1,000 TH/s (large mining farms)
• EH/s — exahashes = 1,000,000 TH/s (Bitcoin network total)

A NerdMiner runs at about 50-80 KH/s. A Bitaxe runs at ~500 GH/s. A modern Antminer S21 runs at ~200 TH/s. The entire Bitcoin network runs at over 1 ZH/s (zettahash = 1 billion TH/s).

The block reward varies by coin and changes over time due to halvings:

• BTC: 3.125 BTC per block (~$180,000+ at current prices)
• BCH: 3.125 BCH per block
• DGB: ~262 DGB per block
• PPC: ~37-39 PPC per block (PoS hybrid, varies)
• BCH2: 50 BCH2 per block
• BC2: Variable

Plus transaction fees included in the block. BCMonster takes a small percentage as its fee, and the remainder goes directly to your wallet.

Profitability depends entirely on your electricity cost, hardware efficiency, and current coin prices. For large ASICs at commercial electricity rates, mining can be profitable. For home miners paying retail electricity, it's often a break-even or slight loss on major coins like BTC.

However, BCMonster is designed for the thrill of solo mining — the lottery aspect. Many miners run Bitaxes and NerdMiners as a hobby, similar to buying a lottery ticket, while knowing the math doesn't strictly favor them.

Mining difficulty is a number that controls how hard it is to find a valid block hash. It adjusts automatically so blocks are found at a consistent rate regardless of total network hashrate.

Bitcoin adjusts every 2016 blocks (~2 weeks). If blocks were found faster than 10 minutes, difficulty goes up. Slower than 10 minutes, it goes down. This self-regulating mechanism keeps Bitcoin's monetary issuance schedule predictable no matter how many miners join or leave.

The dashboard updates every ~15 seconds and only shows miners that have submitted at least one share. Check:

1. Confirm your username is your wallet address (not an email or username)
2. Make sure you're using the correct coin's port — BTC address on BTC port, PPC address on PPC port, etc.
3. Verify your miner shows "Accepted" shares in its own interface — if it's showing "Rejected" or "Stale", the connection is working but your shares aren't valid
4. Search for your address on the dashboard manually using the search box
5. Wait 2-3 minutes after connecting — very slow miners may take time to submit a first share

Some rejection is normal (1-3%). High rejection rates (>5%) suggest:

• Network latency — choose a stratum server geographically closer. High ping = more stale shares.
• Wrong port for your hashrate — if you're submitting shares too fast for the standard port, try the Pro port with higher starting difficulty.
• Miner firmware — outdated firmware can cause compatibility issues. Update your ASIC firmware.
• Fast-block coins — DigiByte has ~15 second blocks. If your connection latency is high, stale shares increase. BCMonster's Stratum smoothing proxy helps with this.

Pool-reported hashrate is calculated from accepted shares over time, which is inherently statistical. It naturally varies and takes time to converge on your true hashrate. This is normal:

• The 60M Avg column is most reliable — it averages over 60 minutes.
• Current hashrate fluctuates heavily minute-to-minute, especially for slower miners.
• Rejected/stale shares reduce your effective pool hashrate.
• Very high difficulty (Pro port) means fewer shares per unit time, so the estimate is less frequent.

If your 24h average is consistently 20%+ below your miner's rated hashrate, check for rejected shares or hardware issues.

Payouts are not instant — there are required waiting periods:

1. Check the block on your dashboard. Is it showing as "Pending" or "Confirmed"? Pending means it's still maturing.
2. Confirm your payout wallet address is registered correctly in your wallet panel.
3. BTC takes ~16 hours of maturity (100 blocks). PPC takes ~3.5 days (500 blocks).
4. After maturity, the payment processor runs automatically. Payouts may take up to 30 minutes after maturity.
5. If your dashboard shows "Total Paid" has increased but your wallet hasn't received it, double-check you're looking at the right address and the correct blockchain explorer.

Still stuck? Hit us up in chat or email BCMonster@BCMonster.com.

Your PIN is tied to your wallet address. PINs are stored as hashed values — BCMonster cannot recover them for you.

However, since your wallet address is public, your mining history and earned balances are always visible on the dashboard. Contact BCMonster via chat or email to request a PIN reset — you'll need to prove ownership of the wallet address (e.g. sign a message with your private key).

Try these steps:

1. Hard refresh the page (Ctrl+Shift+R / Cmd+Shift+R) to clear cached JavaScript
2. Disable browser extensions — ad blockers sometimes interfere with chat APIs
3. Check your browser console (F12) for error messages and include them if you report the issue
4. Try a different browser to isolate browser-specific issues

If the issue persists, email BCMonster@BCMonster.com with your browser and OS version.

Cryptocurrency mining is the process of verifying transactions on a blockchain network and adding them to the public ledger. Miners compete to solve a cryptographic puzzle — the first to solve it earns the right to add the next block and claim the block reward (newly created coins) plus transaction fees from that block.

Mining serves two purposes: it creates new coins in a decentralized way (no central authority prints them) and it secures the network by making it computationally expensive to alter transaction history.

Here's the core loop that every SHA-256 miner runs billions of times per second:

1. Take a block of pending transactions from the network
2. Add a random number called a nonce
3. Run everything through SHA-256 (twice for Bitcoin)
4. Check if the resulting hash starts with enough leading zeros to meet the current difficulty target
5. If not — increment the nonce and try again. If yes — you found a block!

The genius of this system is that hashing is asymmetric: easy to verify (anyone can check the result in milliseconds) but hard to produce (requires trillions of guesses). This is why it's called "Proof of Work" — the valid hash is cryptographic proof that you did the work.

Yes — and BCMonster is built exactly for this. Home mining is alive and well, especially for:

• SHA-256 lottery mining on low-difficulty coins (DGB, PPC, BCH2, BC2) where a home ASIC has realistic odds of finding a block
• NerdMiners and Bitaxes — silent, low-power devices that run 24/7 for a few watts and swing for Bitcoin block rewards
• Miners who own their hardware outright and have cheap or free electricity (solar, off-peak rates)

Bitcoin itself is now dominated by industrial farms, but BCMonster's multi-coin approach means you can mine coins where your hardware has much better odds. A single Antminer S19 has a realistic chance of finding blocks on Peercoin or Bitcoin Cash II.

It depends heavily on three factors: electricity price, hardware efficiency, and current coin prices. The general rule:

• Under $0.06/kWh: Modern ASICs can be very profitable mining BTC
• $0.06–$0.12/kWh: Breakeven to slight profit on efficient hardware. Altcoins on BCMonster can outperform BTC here.
• Above $0.12/kWh: Challenging for pure profit. Many home miners treat it as a hobby or hedge — converting electricity into coins they believe will appreciate.

Your earnings depend on your hashrate relative to the network. The formula: (Your Hashrate ÷ Network Hashrate) × Block Reward × Blocks Per Day.

Example at current Bitcoin network difficulty (~1.05 ZH/s):

• 100 TH/s Antminer: ~0.0000001 BTC per day (~$0.006 before electricity)
• 10 PH/s farm: ~0.001 BTC per day (~$60 before electricity)

This is why lower-difficulty coins on BCMonster are attractive for small miners — the same 100 TH/s that earns fractions of a penny on Bitcoin per day could realistically find a Peercoin block worth $8–$10 every few weeks.

At current Bitcoin network hashrate (~1.05 ZH/s) and 144 blocks/day, a single 100 TH/s miner would statistically take about 200,000+ years to find a full Bitcoin block solo. In pool mining, that same miner earns proportional fractions of blocks continuously — roughly $0.006/day in BTC before electricity.

This is exactly why BCMonster also mines lower-difficulty coins like Peercoin, DigiByte, BC2, and BCH2 — where the same hardware has a realistic shot at a full block reward in days or weeks rather than geological timescales.

BCMonster mines SHA-256 algorithm coins. Your hardware options:

• ASIC miners — dedicated hardware designed only for SHA-256. Antminer, Whatsminer, Canaan, Bitaxe. Most efficient option by far.
• NerdMiner / ESP32 lottery miners — tiny Wi-Fi connected boards running ~50-80 KH/s. Plug in, set up once, leave running forever. More of a hobby than a profit engine.
• GPU (not recommended) — GPUs are 1000× less efficient than ASICs on SHA-256. Not viable.
• CPU (not viable) — CPUs on SHA-256 produce less hashrate than some USB miners from 2013.

Technically yes, practically no. A high-end RTX 4090 GPU produces about 500–800 MH/s on SHA-256 — while a $200 Antminer S9 from 2017 produces 14,000,000 MH/s (14 TH/s). ASICs beat GPUs on SHA-256 by a factor of 10,000–50,000× in hashrate per watt.

GPUs excel at other algorithms like Ethash (Ethereum Classic), Kawpow (Ravencoin), or Autolykos (Ergo) — but BCMonster only supports SHA-256 coins, so an ASIC is the right tool here.

For SHA-256 coins on BCMonster — no. A modern CPU produces ~2–5 MH/s on SHA-256. The Bitcoin network's total hashrate is over 1 ZH/s = 1,000,000,000,000 MH/s. Your CPU's contribution would be so small it wouldn't register on any meaningful timescale.

CPUs can still mine other algorithms profitably (Monero via RandomX is CPU-friendly), but that's not what BCMonster supports. For BCMonster you need an ASIC, even a cheap used one.

ASIC stands for Application-Specific Integrated Circuit. Unlike a CPU or GPU which can run any software, an ASIC chip is hardwired at the silicon level to do one thing only — in this case, SHA-256 double-hashing as fast as possible.

This specialization is why ASICs are so dominant: a chip optimized for one algorithm can be 10,000× more efficient than a general-purpose processor doing the same work. The tradeoff is that an SHA-256 ASIC is useless for anything other than SHA-256 mining.

Popular ASIC brands for SHA-256: Bitmain Antminer (S series), MicroBT Whatsminer (M series), Canaan Avalon. Open-source hardware like the Bitaxe uses repurposed ASIC chips in a hobbyist-friendly form factor.

Mining is legal in most countries including the United States, Canada, most of Europe, and Australia. A small number of countries have restricted or banned it — notably China (2021), though enforcement varies.

In jurisdictions where it's legal, mining income is typically treated as taxable income at the fair market value when received. Consult a local tax professional for advice specific to your situation — BCMonster is not a tax advisor.

A mining pool is a group of miners who combine their hashrate and share block rewards proportionally. Instead of each miner independently trying to find a block (which could take thousands of years for a small miner), the pool collectively finds blocks much more frequently and distributes the reward based on each miner's contribution.

BCMonster is unique in that it offers both pool mining (shared rewards) and solo mining (full reward to the finder) through the same infrastructure — you just change your password field to switch between them.

The main reason is variance reduction. Mining is probabilistic — even if you "should" find a block every 6 months statistically, in reality you might go 2 years without one, or find two in a week. Pool mining smooths this out by giving you small, frequent rewards.

For high-difficulty coins like Bitcoin where a solo find might take centuries, pool mining is the only practical option for small miners. For lower-difficulty coins on BCMonster (DGB, PPC, BCH2, BC2), solo mining becomes much more reasonable even for home hardware.

These are different methods pools use to calculate your share of each block reward:

• PPS (Pay Per Share) — you get paid for every valid share submitted, regardless of whether the pool actually finds a block. The pool takes on the variance risk. Fees are usually higher to compensate.
• PPLNS (Pay Per Last N Shares) — rewards are distributed based on your shares in the last N shares window before a block was found. Favors miners who stay connected continuously. More variance than PPS.
• PROP (Proportional) — BCMonster's method. Each miner receives a share of the block reward proportional to their contribution during the current round. Rounds reset each time a block is found. Simple, transparent, fair.
• FPPS (Full Pay Per Share) — like PPS but also includes your proportional share of transaction fees, not just the block subsidy. Common on large pools.

BCMonster uses PROP for pool mining — your payout = (your shares in the round ÷ total round shares) × block reward, minus pool fee.

BCMonster charges a flat 1.5% on all coins — pool and solo. For context, the major pools charge:

• Foundry USA: 0% (but FPPS model includes hidden spread)
• AntPool: 0–2% depending on model
• ViaBTC: 2–4%
• F2Pool: 2.5%
• SlushPool (Braiins): 2%

Fees aren't the only factor — consider the pool's payout model, server stability, coin selection, and feature set. BCMonster's 1.5% flat fee includes multi-coin support, merge mining, the One Shot Olympics leaderboard, and infrastructure that's been running since 2016.

Payouts are triggered automatically after each block matures. BCMonster doesn't hold funds on a daily/weekly cycle — once a block reaches maturity (100 confirmations for BTC, 500 for PPC, 20 for DGB), the payment processor runs and sends funds within minutes.

This means if you find a block today, you'll see the payout in your wallet within hours (or days for Peercoin's longer maturity period).

On BCMonster, balance only increases when a block is found. This is different from large pools where you accumulate tiny daily fractions. Check:

• Are blocks being found? Check the Blocks page or block ticker at the top for recent pool blocks.
• Is your miner connected? Your worker should show as Online on the dashboard.
• Are your shares being counted? Round Shares on your dashboard should be increasing.
• Is your payout address registered? Without a registered wallet address, payouts can't be sent.

If everything looks correct but no blocks have been found recently, patience is the answer — mining is probabilistic.

Workers are shown as "Offline" rather than removed when they disconnect. If a worker has been offline for an extended period with zero activity, it may eventually fall off the active list. Common causes:

• Miner lost power or internet connection
• Miner was reconfigured to a different pool or coin
• Router IP changed and the stratum connection dropped
• Miner firmware crashed (check miner's own interface)

The "Last seen" timestamp on your dashboard tells you when the worker last submitted a share. Your mining history and best shares are permanently preserved regardless of online/offline status.

The core formula: Daily Profit = (Daily Coin Earnings × Coin Price) − Daily Electricity Cost

To get daily coin earnings: (Your Hashrate ÷ Network Hashrate) × Daily Block Reward × Blocks Per Day

Electricity cost: Power Draw (kW) × Hours Per Day × Price Per kWh

Useful online calculators that source live data:

• WhatToMine.com — comprehensive multi-coin profitability calculator
• Minerstat.com — hardware database with profitability estimates
• f2pool mining profit calculator

For Bitcoin mining with a modern efficient ASIC (e.g. Antminer S21 at ~17 J/TH):

• <$0.05/kWh: Highly profitable
• $0.05–$0.08/kWh: Profitable
• $0.08–$0.10/kWh: Marginal — depends heavily on BTC price
• >$0.10/kWh: Likely unprofitable on BTC at current prices

For lower-difficulty altcoins on BCMonster (DGB, PPC, BC2, BCH2), these thresholds are more generous because block rewards come more frequently relative to your hashrate. A miner that loses money on BTC per day might still profit mining Peercoin.

Profitability depends on efficiency (J/TH), purchase price, and current coin prices. In 2026, leading SHA-256 ASICs include:

• Antminer S21 Pro — ~234 TH/s at ~15 J/TH. Top-tier efficiency.
• Whatsminer M60S+ — ~186 TH/s at ~17.5 J/TH. Reliable workhorses.
• Antminer S19 XP — ~140 TH/s at ~21.5 J/TH. Good used market value.
• Canaan Avalon A1566 — ~185 TH/s. Air-cooled, competitive efficiency.

For BCMonster's multi-coin approach, older generation machines (S17, S19) are often excellent value — their lower BTC profitability is offset by better relative odds on lower-difficulty coins.

ROI (Return on Investment) = Hardware cost ÷ Daily net profit = Days to break even.

Example: A miner costs $2,000 and earns $5/day net after electricity → ROI = 400 days (~13 months).

The catch: network difficulty, coin prices, and electricity costs all change over time. A 400-day ROI projection made today could turn into 200 days (if BTC price doubles) or never (if difficulty spikes). Real ROI calculations should model multiple price/difficulty scenarios.

For BCMonster miners targeting altcoins, a single block find can dramatically accelerate ROI — a Peercoin block win on a 100 TH/s miner pays ~$9 in one shot, which might be a week's worth of daily pool earnings.

This is the fundamental question every miner faces. The honest answer: purely from a return-on-capital perspective, buying Bitcoin directly has outperformed mining for most retail participants over the past few years, due to difficulty growth outpacing hardware efficiency gains.

However, mining has real advantages that pure buying doesn't:

• Cost basis privacy — mining income is harder to trace than exchange purchases
• No exchange counterparty risk — you mine directly to your own wallet
• Operational cash flow — mining generates ongoing coin income rather than a lump-sum purchase
• Network participation — you're actively securing the coins you believe in
• It's genuinely fun — many BCMonster miners are hobbyists who enjoy the process

A share is a proof that your miner is working — it's a hash result that meets a lower difficulty target than a full network block, but proves your hardware is genuinely doing SHA-256 work.

Think of it like a lottery: the network difficulty is like needing a ticket number below 1,000. A share is like needing a number below 1,000,000 — easier to hit, but still proves you're buying tickets. The pool collects your shares to calculate your contribution, and when someone hits the real target (below 1,000), the pool splits the prize based on shares submitted.

Your best share ever is the closest any of your shares has come to meeting actual network difficulty — BCMonster tracks this on the One Shot Olympics leaderboard.

A stale share is a valid share that was submitted after a new block was already found — either by your pool, another pool, or the network. Because the blockchain has already moved to the next block, your share is working on an outdated block template and can't be credited.

Stale shares are caused by network latency between your miner and the pool server. When a new block is found, the pool has to propagate the new job to all connected miners. Miners with high latency (high ping) continue submitting work on the old job for a brief window, producing stale shares.

BCMonster's Stratum smoothing proxy helps reduce stale rates on fast-block coins like DigiByte (15-second blocks).

Stale shares are valid work submitted too late — the hash is correct but the block template is outdated.

Invalid shares are shares where the hash itself is wrong — the miner claims to have found a valid hash but when the pool verifies it, the hash doesn't meet the required difficulty. This indicates:

• Hardware errors — damaged ASIC chips producing incorrect hash results
• Overclocking too aggressively — pushing chips beyond stable frequencies
• Firmware bugs — software incorrectly constructing the block header
• Memory errors — bad RAM or flash corrupting computation

A small invalid rate (<1%) is normal. High invalid rates (>3%) usually mean a failing chip or unstable overclock.

Stratum is the standard communication protocol between miners and pools. Introduced by Slush Pool in 2012, it replaced the older getwork protocol and is now used by virtually every mining pool and ASIC.

Stratum uses a persistent TCP connection over which the pool pushes new block templates to the miner (mining.notify) and the miner submits completed shares (mining.submit). The connection stays alive rather than polling, which is much more efficient.

The URL format you see on BCMonster — stratum+tcp://bcmonster.com:3333 — tells your miner to connect via TCP using the Stratum protocol to bcmonster.com on port 3333.

Pool luck measures whether a block was found faster or slower than statistically expected. It's expressed as a percentage:

• 100% luck — found exactly when expected (1 full round's worth of shares)
• 200% luck — took twice as long as expected (unlucky)
• 50% luck — found in half the expected time (lucky)

Luck averages to 100% over time — it's pure probability. Short-term luck swings of 50–300% are completely normal and don't reflect anything about your miner's performance or the pool's operation.

The coinbase transaction is the first transaction in every block — it creates new coins and sends them to the miner who found the block. It contains no inputs (coins come from nowhere — this is how new Bitcoin is created) and outputs the block reward to the pool's address.

The extranonce is extra space in the coinbase transaction that miners can vary to expand their search space. A standard 32-bit nonce gives 4 billion combinations — modern ASICs exhaust this in milliseconds. The extranonce lets miners vary the coinbase itself, effectively creating a fresh set of 4 billion nonces to search through. BCMonster handles extranonce allocation automatically via Stratum.

An orphan (or stale) block happens when two miners find valid blocks at nearly the same time. Both are valid, but the network can only accept one — the blockchain forks briefly, then the longer chain wins and the other block is "orphaned." The miner of the orphaned block receives no reward.

This is rare (<0.1% of blocks on Bitcoin) and more likely on coins with very fast block times. BCMonster monitors for orphans and will show the block as orphaned in your dashboard if it occurs. It's one of the few outcomes in mining where you do the work and receive nothing — luck of the network.

The mempool (memory pool) is the queue of unconfirmed transactions waiting to be included in a block. Miners select transactions from the mempool to include in their block template, prioritizing those with higher fee rates (satoshis per byte).

When the mempool is congested (high demand for block space), transaction fees spike and miners earn significantly more per block — sometimes more than the block subsidy itself. When the mempool is empty, blocks might contain almost no fee income.

BCMonster includes available transaction fees in your block reward automatically. Your dashboard shows the full reward including fees when a block is found.

Yes, in two ways:

Stale shares: Higher latency between your miner and BCMonster's servers means more stale shares. BCMonster is hosted in North America — miners nearby will have lower ping and fewer stales. The practical impact is usually under 1% for miners within the same continent.

Block propagation: When any miner on the network finds a block, that information propagates globally. Miners geographically distant from major mining centers receive the new block template slightly later, causing brief periods of wasted work. This is a minor effect on solo mining but matters more in competitive pool mining.

BCMonster is built for a specific type of miner — one who wants more than just hashing toward an industrial-scale pool. Key differentiators:

• Multi-coin — one pool, 8 SHA-256 coins. Switch coins without changing your hardware.
• Solo + Pool — run both simultaneously across different workers, one password field away from switching.
• Free merge mining — mine NMC and FB for free alongside BTC, zero extra configuration.
• NerdMiner & small miner native — dedicated lottery ports built for low-hashrate ESP32 miners. Bitaxe connects via Standard ports as a proper small ASIC.
• Running since 2016 — 298+ BTC mined lifetime (verified on-chain). We're not going anywhere.
• Live community — real-time chat, leaderboards, block notifications, no anonymous pool operator.
• AsicBoost free — BIP310 version rolling enabled automatically on all ports.

Bitcoin Cash II (BCH2) is a SHA-256 proof-of-work cryptocurrency with a 50 BCH2 block reward and relatively low network difficulty compared to BTC and BCH. This makes it one of the most realistic coins for solo block finds on BCMonster — a home ASIC has genuinely good odds of finding BCH2 blocks.

BCH2 mining on BCMonster uses port 8888 (Standard) or 8889 (Pro) with your BCH2 wallet address as the username.

You need to change three things when switching coins: the stratum port, your wallet address (username), and make sure your wallet is registered for that coin in BCMonster's wallet panel. The stratum hostname (bcmonster.com) stays the same.

The Quick Connect button on the dashboard shows the exact URL and settings for every coin — copy the stratum URL and paste it directly into your miner's configuration.

Many miners run multiple workers on multiple coins simultaneously — one ASIC on BTC, another on DGB, another on PPC — all pointed at BCMonster.

BCMonster provides several monitoring views:

• Dashboard (index.html) — enter your wallet address to see your miner snapshot: hashrate, shares, best share, pending payout, total paid.
• Worker page (worker.html) — deep dive per-worker stats, hashrate chart, round progress, payment history.
• Workers grid (workers.html) — pop-out table of all your workers across all coins.
• Leaderboards — see how your hashrate and shares compare to other miners on the pool.
• Block notifications — enable Alerts in the header to receive browser notifications when the pool finds a block.

Your best share is the highest-difficulty share you've ever submitted to BCMonster — the closest you've come to actually finding a block. It's measured in the same units as network difficulty (G, M, etc.).

A best share of 8.65 G on Bitcoin means your miner produced a hash worth 8.65 billion in difficulty — and Bitcoin's network difficulty is ~124 T (trillion). You were about 14,000× away from a block find at that moment.

View your best share on your worker dashboard. Pool-wide best shares are on the Best Share Leaderboard. The One Shot Olympics tracks best shares specifically for small ESP32 miners.

This is a statistical estimate of how long it would take your current hashrate to find a solo block at current network difficulty. It's calculated as:

Expected Time = Network Difficulty × 2^32 ÷ Your Hashrate (H/s)

Important: this is a mean (average) of an exponential distribution. It means you're as likely to find a block before that time as after it — roughly 63% of the time you'll find it within the expected time if you mine continuously. It's not a countdown or a guarantee.

Pool-reported hashrate is estimated from shares submitted over time — it's inherently statistical. The "current" hashrate is a short window estimate that naturally jumps around. This is normal and expected.

The 60-minute average is much more stable and is the best indicator of your true hashrate. The 24-hour average is even smoother. If your 24H average consistently shows 20%+ less than your miner reports, investigate hardware or connection issues. But if your 60M average is close to your miner's rated speed, everything is working correctly.

BCMonster's dashboard auto-refreshes every 15 seconds, so you'll see natural statistical fluctuation on every update. Don't panic if the current hashrate shows zero briefly — it just means no shares arrived in that particular window.

It depends on your goals and budget:

• Best odds on altcoins (budget pick): Used Antminer S9 or S17 (~$50–$200). Low wattage relative to hashrate, good for Peercoin/DGB/BC2/BCH2 where difficulty is low enough that even older hardware competes.
• Best efficiency for BTC: Antminer S21 Pro or Whatsminer M60S+. Expensive but lowest J/TH for maximum profitability at higher electricity costs.
• Best home miner (quiet): Antminer S19j Pro or Canaan AvalonMini. Slightly less noisy than top-tier industrial machines.
• Best hobby/lottery ASIC: Bitaxe Ultra or Gamma. Open-source, ~500 GH/s, silent, runs on USB power. Uses a real BM1366/BM1368 ASIC chip — connect via Standard ports (3333), not the lottery ports.

Industrial ASICs are very loud — comparable to a vacuum cleaner or jet engine at close range:

• Antminer S19 series: ~75–82 dB at 1 meter. Not suitable for living spaces.
• Whatsminer M30S: ~75 dB. Same category.
• Antminer S9 (older): ~72 dB. Still loud but more manageable.
• Bitaxe / NerdMiner: Nearly silent. No fans, designed for home use.

Industrial ASICs need a dedicated space — garage, shed, basement, or commercial facility. Running one in a bedroom or home office is impractical. Some miners use acoustic enclosures or immersion cooling to reduce noise.

ASIC chips typically run at 60–85°C under load. The exhaust air from a miner can be 50–70°C — enough to heat a small room significantly. Key cooling requirements:

• Adequate airflow: ASICs need to pull in cool air and exhaust hot air freely. Don't restrict airflow or stack machines too close.
• Ambient temperature: Keep the room below 35°C. Higher ambient temperatures reduce chip lifespan and can trigger thermal throttling.
• Fan maintenance: Clean dust from intake fans monthly. Clogged fans are the #1 cause of overheating failures.
• Immersion cooling: Advanced setups submerge ASICs in dielectric fluid for silent, efficient cooling at the cost of upfront investment.

Mining uses very little bandwidth — a single ASIC sends maybe 1–5 KB of data per minute to the pool. A 1 Mbps connection can support hundreds of miners simultaneously.

However, latency matters more than bandwidth. High ping = more stale shares. A 5ms wired connection will always outperform a 50ms Wi-Fi connection even if the Wi-Fi has more raw bandwidth.

For industrial ASICs: wired Ethernet only. The stale share cost of Wi-Fi latency adds up over months of mining.

For NerdMiners and Bitaxes: Wi-Fi is fine and often the only option. The stakes are lower and the devices are designed for Wi-Fi connectivity.

With proper cooling and maintenance, ASIC miners can last 5–10 years or more. The main failure modes are:

• Hash board chip failures — individual ASIC chips burn out over time, reducing total hashrate. Boards can be repaired or replaced.
• Fan failures — fans are consumables. Replace them every 2–3 years proactively.
• Power supply unit (PSU) failures — PSUs can be replaced independently from the hash boards.
• Economic obsolescence — the machine still works but is no longer profitable on BTC due to network difficulty growth. This is why BCMonster's multi-coin approach extends miner economic lifespan — an S9 that's useless on BTC can still find blocks on lower-difficulty coins.

The "best" pool depends entirely on what you're optimizing for:

• Maximum BTC income, large operation: Foundry USA or AntPool — massive hashrate, FPPS payments, institutional-grade infrastructure.
• Multi-coin SHA-256 with solo options: BCMonster — the only pool supporting 8 SHA-256 coins simultaneously with solo mining, merge mining, and NerdMiner-specific ports.
• Privacy-focused: CKPool (solo.ckpool.org) — minimal data collection, direct solo Bitcoin mining.
• Ethereum Classic / GPU coins: Ethermine, 2Miners, Flexpool.
• Monero (CPU mining): SupportXMR, MoneroOcean.

For SHA-256 home miners who want more than just BTC and a soul-crushing estimated-time-to-block — BCMonster is the answer.

Here's the complete path from zero to mining on BCMonster:

1. Choose your coin(s) — decide which SHA-256 coin to mine. For beginners, DGB or BCH2 offer better odds for small miners.
2. Get a wallet — download the official wallet for your chosen coin and generate an address. Write down your seed phrase and keep it safe offline.
3. Get hardware — buy an ASIC miner (Antminer, Whatsminer) or a NerdMiner/Bitaxe for a low-cost start.
4. Connect to BCMonster — open the Quick Connect modal on the dashboard and copy the stratum URL for your coin and tier.
5. Configure your miner — enter the stratum URL, your wallet address as the username, and x (pool) or m=solo (solo) as the password.
6. Register on BCMonster — enter your wallet address in the search bar, open the wallet panel, set a display name and PIN.
7. Monitor and enjoy — watch your hashrate appear on the dashboard, track your shares, and wait for that block find!

It varies enormously by hardware:

• NerdMiner: ~0.5–2W. Costs pennies per month.
• Bitaxe: ~10–20W. ~$1–2/month at $0.10/kWh.
• Antminer S19j Pro (100 TH/s): ~3,050W. ~$22/month at $0.10/kWh.
• Antminer S21 Pro (234 TH/s): ~3,531W. ~$25/month at $0.10/kWh.

The entire Bitcoin network consumes an estimated 120–150 TWh per year — comparable to the electricity consumption of a mid-sized country. This is a feature (makes attacks expensive) as much as a criticism (environmental impact). BCMonster miners running on renewable energy contribute to the growing percentage of Bitcoin mining powered by clean energy.

Not profitably or meaningfully. A modern gaming PC with an RTX 4090 GPU produces maybe 1 GH/s on SHA-256 — versus the Bitcoin network's 1,000,000,000 GH/s (1 EH/s). Your contribution would be 0.000000001% of the network.

You'd consume more in electricity than you'd ever earn in BTC. However:

• You can mine Monero (XMR) profitably with a CPU using RandomX — the algorithm is ASIC-resistant by design.
• You can mine other GPU-friendly algorithms (Ethash, KawPoW) with your GPU.
• For SHA-256 coins on BCMonster, a PC is not the right tool. Even a $50 used Antminer S9 would be 50,000× more effective than your gaming PC's CPU+GPU combined.

Bitcoin

BTC · SHA-256 · 10 min blocks

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Bitcoin was created by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto and launched on January 3, 2009 with the mining of the genesis block — which contained the now-famous message: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks."

The first Bitcoin transaction occurred on January 12, 2009, between Satoshi and Hal Finney. The first real-world purchase was 10,000 BTC for two pizzas on May 22, 2010 — now celebrated annually as "Bitcoin Pizza Day." Satoshi disappeared from public view in late 2010, leaving Bitcoin in the hands of the open-source community.

Bitcoin halves its block reward every 210,000 blocks (~4 years). The most recent halving in April 2024 reduced the reward from 6.25 to 3.125 BTC per block. The next halving is estimated around 2028. There will only ever be 21 million BTC — roughly 19.7 million have been mined as of 2026.

Bitcoin Cash

BCH · SHA-256 · 10 min blocks

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Bitcoin Cash was created on August 1, 2017 via a hard fork of the Bitcoin blockchain at block 478,558. The fork was driven by a longstanding dispute over Bitcoin's block size limit — BCH supporters wanted larger blocks (initially 8 MB, later 32 MB) to enable more transactions per second and lower fees.

Key figures behind BCH included Roger Ver ("Bitcoin Jesus"), Jihan Wu of Bitmain, and Craig Wright. BCH itself later forked again in November 2018 into BCH (ABC) and BSV (Bitcoin SV), following another contentious disagreement.

Despite its lower price than BTC, BCH maintains a significant mining ecosystem, uses the same SHA-256 algorithm, and has an Emergency Difficulty Adjustment (EDA) mechanism that helps it recover from dramatic hashrate swings. It has the same 21 million coin cap and 3.125 BCH block reward as of 2024.

DigiByte

DGB · SHA-256 (+ 4 others) · 15 sec blocks

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DigiByte was founded by Jared Tate and launched on January 10, 2014. It's notable for several technical innovations: 15-second block times (40× faster than Bitcoin), five mining algorithms (SHA-256, Scrypt, Skein, Qubit, Odocrypt), and DigiShield — a real-time difficulty adjustment mechanism later adopted by many other coins including Zcash.

BCMonster mines DGB via the SHA-256 algorithm only. Because DGB blocks are found every 15 seconds, BCMonster uses a Stratum smoothing proxy to prevent aggressive job-switching that would cause ASIC pipeline flushes on fast-block coins.

DigiByte has a supply cap of 21 billion DGB (1,000× Bitcoin's supply) with a block reward that decreases 1% every month. By 2026 approximately 95% of all DGB has been mined. The current block reward is approximately 262 DGB.

Peercoin

PPC · SHA-256 PoW + PoS hybrid · 10 min blocks

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Peercoin was created by the pseudonymous developer Sunny King and launched on August 19, 2012 — making it one of the oldest cryptocurrencies still actively maintained. It was the first cryptocurrency to implement Proof of Stake, a major innovation that inspired countless later projects including Ethereum's post-merge consensus.

Peercoin uses a hybrid PoW/PoS model: SHA-256 mining secures the initial coin distribution (like Bitcoin), while Proof of Stake allows coin holders to mint new blocks by "staking" their holdings. Unlike Bitcoin, Peercoin has no hard supply cap — it inflates at ~1% per year via PoS minting, which Sunny King argued makes it more sustainable long-term.

BCMonster mines Peercoin's Proof-of-Work side only. Notably, PPC requires 500 confirmations before mining rewards can be spent — much longer than Bitcoin's 100. This is why PPC payouts take several days after a block is found. The PoW block reward is currently approximately 37–39 PPC and decreases gradually over time.

Namecoin

NMC · SHA-256 AuxPoW · Merge-mined with BTC

Namecoin was launched on April 18, 2011, making it the first altcoin ever created and the first fork of Bitcoin. Its original purpose was revolutionary: a decentralized DNS system using the .bit domain extension, resistant to censorship and government seizure.

Namecoin pioneered merge mining (AuxPoW) — the technique that allows Bitcoin miners to simultaneously mine Namecoin with no extra energy. This was a genuine technical innovation, and the AuxPoW standard it established is now used by multiple cryptocurrencies including Dogecoin and Syscoin.

On BCMonster, BTC miners automatically merge-mine NMC. Your BTC stratum connection simultaneously submits work to both Bitcoin and Namecoin block templates. When your hash meets Namecoin's difficulty (which is much lower than Bitcoin's), you find an NMC block and earn NMC block rewards — typically around 3.125 NMC per block.

Fractal Bitcoin

FB · SHA-256 AuxPoW · Merge-mined with BTC · ~30 sec blocks

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Fractal Bitcoin launched in September 2024 as a Bitcoin scaling solution — a separate blockchain that runs the Bitcoin protocol recursively as a second layer. It uses SHA-256 Proof of Work and supports merge mining with Bitcoin, meaning BCMonster BTC miners earn FB rewards for free alongside BTC.

FB uses an AuxPoW mechanism similar to Namecoin but targets much faster block times (~30 seconds). Its network difficulty is dramatically lower than Bitcoin's — currently measured in single-digit G range vs Bitcoin's 124+ T — making merge-mined block finds realistic even for smaller hashrate miners.

BCMonster was an early supporter of Fractal Bitcoin merge mining, implementing the full AuxPoW pipeline in mid-2025. When your BTC stratum work meets FB's lower difficulty, BCMonster automatically submits it to the FB daemon and credits your registered FB wallet.

Bitcoin II

BC2 · SHA-256 · Lower network difficulty

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Bitcoin II is a SHA-256 proof-of-work cryptocurrency with a significantly lower network difficulty than Bitcoin or Bitcoin Cash, making it one of the most accessible coins for solo mining on BCMonster. It follows Bitcoin's core design — UTXO model, SHA-256 mining, fixed supply — with a smaller network footprint.

The lower network difficulty means a home ASIC has genuinely competitive odds of finding a BC2 block. BCMonster has found multiple BC2 blocks, validating it as a practical solo mining target for miners with hashrates in the TH/s range.

Bitcoin Cash II

BCH2 · SHA-256 · 50 BCH2 block reward

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Bitcoin Cash II is a SHA-256 cryptocurrency offering a 50 BCH2 block reward — one of the largest per-block rewards of any coin on BCMonster. Its network difficulty is among the lowest on the pool, which combined with the generous reward makes BCH2 a standout target for solo miners.

BCMonster has found multiple BCH2 blocks including block #67,637 in June 2026, yielding 50 BCH2 — demonstrating that real miners with real hardware win on this coin regularly. The lower difficulty means even a single S19 has realistic odds within days to weeks of continuous mining.

Quai Network is a next-generation Proof-of-Work blockchain that launched on mainnet in October 2024. It represents one of the most technically ambitious PoW designs since Bitcoin — using a sharded multi-chain architecture that runs 13 parallel chains simultaneously, all secured by the same mining infrastructure.

What makes Quai unique:

• ProgPoW algorithm — ASIC-resistant, designed for GPU mining. Unlike SHA-256 coins, Quai is meant to keep GPU miners competitive indefinitely.
• Merged mining across 13 zones — miners simultaneously mine the Prime chain, 3 Region chains, and 9 Zone chains. One miner, multiple reward streams.
• Infinite scalability design — throughput scales linearly by adding more zone chains as demand grows, without hard forks.
• Built-in EVM compatibility — smart contracts work out of the box, making Quai a programmable PoW chain.
• Qi companion token — Quai has a dual-token system: QUAI (store of value, miner reward) and Qi (transactional stablecoin pegged to energy cost of mining).

BCMonster is actively working on Quai Network integration. Because Quai uses ProgPoW rather than SHA-256, it requires dedicated GPU mining infrastructure separate from our existing ASIC pools. When Quai launches on BCMonster, GPU miners will be able to participate alongside our ASIC miners, significantly expanding who can mine on the pool.