Mining Guides

Coin guides

• Mining Maza: the pool's oldest section, set up in five minutes
  Maza (MAZA) has been mined on this pool since February 2024. Stratum ports for every rig size, 0% fee, 100 MAZA minimum payout — connect with just a wallet address.
  2024-02-14
• Palladium (PLM): connecting to the busiest section on the pool
  Palladium is the highest-hasrate coin on MineCraft Pool. Stratum setup, varDiff notes, 0% fee and the deliberately low 10 PLM payout threshold.
  2024-04-23
• Lambda (LMC): the Scrypt section, explained
  Lambda is the one Scrypt coin on this SHA-256 pool. Antminer L-class setup, port difficulties in kH, 0% fee, 100 LMC minimum payout.
  2025-01-24
• Aureus (AURE): why home miners keep pointing Bitaxes here
  A small SHA-256d network where a 1–2 TH/s device is a real share of consensus. Ports, 0% fee, 100 AURE minimum payout and honest odds for solo mining.
  2026-03-02
• OrdexCoin (OXC): connect in five minutes
  Point any SHA-256d ASIC at OXC ports, use your wallet address as username. 1% fee until the payout buffer funds, 40 OXC minimum payout.
  2026-09-12
• BitcoinValue (BTCV): mining through the launch turbulence
  What the first weeks of a new SHA-256 chain look like from the pool side: hashrate spikes, difficulty catch-up, and how to mine BTCV with wallet-as-username.
  2026-09-17
• Bitcoin Purity (BTC1): the big fork your ASIC can actually mine
  A Bitcoin-class SHA-256d chain with 3.125-coin block rewards and twelve independent pools. Connection setup, replay-safety notes, pool parameters.

  How to Mine GateviaCoin (GVIA) — since 2026-10-31.

  
  2026-10-24

Fundamentals & market

• From Bitaxe to Antminer: choosing ASIC hardware without the hype
  What an ASIC actually is, the SHA-256 vs Scrypt split, what a 1 TH/s Bitaxe can and cannot do, and four checks before buying mining hardware.
  2025-06-15
• Solo mining: the variance nobody warns you about
  The whole block goes to one finder — great on small chains, brutal on big ones. Real math from SHA-256 community coins and a checklist to decide.
  2026-05-10
• Post-halving Bitcoin: where small miners actually went
  2026 mid-year look at industrial BTC mining, record hashrate, and the migration of home SHA-256 hardware toward community fork chains.
  2026-07-20
• The hidden cost of a 0% mining pool
  Pool fee is one line of the bill: transaction fees, payout thresholds and orphaned blocks change your real take. How each mechanism works.
  2026-08-12
• Waiting for your first payout? The full path, step by step
  Wallet address as username, block maturity, minimum thresholds and on-chain verification — plus what to check when coins don't arrive.
  2026-10-05
• The fork test: five questions before you point your miner at a chain
  How to tell a living SHA-256 fork from a zombie: pool independence, working nodes, exits, replay safety and distribution — with 2026 examples.
  2026-10-10