Mining pools & guides

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• Bitcoin — Solo or pool mine Bitcoin on BCMonster: 1.5% fee, free Namecoin + Fractal Bitcoin merge mining, Stratum V2, AsicBoost, ports for Bitaxe, NerdMiner, S19/S21 and rentals.
• Bitcoin Cash — Mine Bitcoin Cash on BCMonster: solo or PPLNS pool, 1.5% fee, Stratum V2, TLS ports, AsicBoost and ports for Bitaxe, S19/S21 and NiceHash/MRR rentals.
• DigiByte — Mine DigiByte on the SHA-256 algorithm at BCMonster: solo or pool, 1.5% fee, low-latency job handling for 15-second blocks, Stratum V2 and ports for every ASIC.
• Peercoin — Mine Peercoin with any SHA-256 ASIC on BCMonster: solo or PPLNS pool, 1.5% fee, ports for Bitaxe, S19/S21, NiceHash and Mining Rig Rentals, Stratum V2.
• eCash — Mine eCash (XEC) with any SHA-256 ASIC on BCMonster: solo or pool, 1.5% fee, miner fund and staking outputs handled for you, Stratum V2 and AsicBoost.
• Fractal Bitcoin — Mine Fractal Bitcoin on BCMonster two ways: free merge mining on the BTC ports, or direct FB mining on its own ports. Solo or pool, 1.5% fee, any SHA-256 ASIC.
• Bitcoin II — Mine Bitcoin II (BC2) on BCMonster: low network difficulty SHA-256 coin, solo or pool, 1.5% fee, ports for Bitaxe through big rigs, Stratum V2.
• Bitcoin Cash II — Mine Bitcoin Cash II (BCH2) on BCMonster: SHA-256 coin with a 50 BCH2 block reward and low difficulty, solo or pool, 1.5% fee, ports for every ASIC.
• Namecoin — Merge mine Namecoin (NMC) for free on BCMonster: mine Bitcoin on any BTC port and earn NMC on the same hashrate. Just add an NMC payout address.
• Verus — Mine Verus (VRSC) on BCMonster with CPU or rented VerusHash: solo or pool, free CHIPS, vARRR and vDEX merge mining, NiceHash/MRR port, 4-digit ports.
• Bitaxe — Best pool settings for Bitaxe Gamma, Supra, Ultra, Hex and NerdQAxe: solo or pool on BTC, BCH, DGB, PPC, BC2, BCH2, XEC and FB, 1.5% fee, Stratum V2 for AxeOS.
• NerdMiner — NerdMiner, NMMiner and ESP32 lottery miner pool: low-difficulty ports for BTC and seven other SHA-256 coins, solo or pool, best-share leaderboard.
• Rent hashrate — Point NiceHash, Mining Rig Rentals or Braiins Hashpower at BCMonster: Pro and Elite ports for 8 SHA-256 coins plus Verus, solo or pool, fast difficulty ramp.
• Stratum V2 — BCMonster supports Stratum V2 on every Standard, Pro and Elite port for 8 SHA-256 coins. Settings and pool key for Bitaxe (AxeOS 2.14+), NerdQAxe and Braiins OS.

Why BCMonster

• Solo or pool on every port. Password x = pool (PPLNS), m=solo = solo (you keep the whole block). Or use the dedicated solo port.
• Flat 1.5% fee, pool and solo. Payouts are checked every 2 minutes.
• AsicBoost (version rolling) on every port, Stratum V2 on every Standard, Pro and Elite port, and BCMonster Rapid Tune difficulty that settles in minutes.
• No account or sign-up needed — your wallet address is your login. Live stats on your own worker page.

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