Can I mine Lambda with a Bitaxe?

No — Bitaxe devices are SHA-256 only. LMC needs Scrypt hardware such as Antminer L3+/L7 or a GPU rig with Scrypt support.

Why does a SHA-256 pool run a Scrypt coin?

The pool software supports both algorithms, and Scrypt miners deserve honest SOLO options too. Lambda's community asked, we measured the network, and it fit.

Lambda (LMC): the Scrypt section, explained

MineCraft Pool · 2025-01-24

TL;DR — Point your Scrypt miner at stratum+tcp://lmc.minecraftpool.com:7795 and use your LMC wallet address as the username. Pool fee 0%, minimum payout 100 LMC, SOLO scheme — the whole block reward goes to whoever finds the block.

Connect your miner, use your wallet address as the username, and you're mining. On this pool there is no registration, no account and no email — the wallet address is the account.

stratum+tcp://lmc.minecraftpool.com:7795
username: YOUR_LMC_WALLET_ADDRESS.worker1
password: x

Stratum ports

URL	For hardware
`stratum+tcp://lmc.minecraftpool.com:7795`	small Scrypt ASICs, varDiff
`stratum+tcp://lmc.minecraftpool.com:7796`	mid-range 100 MH–1 GH/s
`stratum+tcp://lmc.minecraftpool.com:7797`	large Scrypt farms >1 GH/s

The first port uses variable difficulty tuned for small devices (Bitaxe-class home ASICs, ~1 TH/s): difficulty starts low and retargets every 30 seconds. The other ports are for mid-range (10–100 TH/s) and large (>100 TH/s) machines and run at fixed difficulty — small miners there just waste work.

About Lambda (LMC)

Lambda is the odd one out on this pool: while every other section runs SHA-256d, LMC is Scrypt — the algorithm of Litecoin and Dogecoin. We added it in January 2025 for miners whose hardware (Antminer L7 and friends) wanted somewhere community-oriented to point at.

Pool parameters

Pool fee: 0%
Minimum payout: 100 LMC
Algorithm: Scrypt
Payout scheme: SOLO — the full block reward goes to the miner who found the block
Block explorer: https://explorer.lambda.community/ (or the project's official explorer)
Wallet: Lambda wallet from the project's releases page

Practical notes

Scrypt difficulty is expressed in kilohashes, not terahashes — an L7-class machine reports ~1 GH/s, so port difficulties are scaled accordingly (varDiff on the small port, fixed on the others). Everything else works identically to the SHA-256 sections: wallet address as username, SOLO payouts, 0% fee, 100 LMC minimum.

FAQ

Can I mine Lambda with a Bitaxe?: No — Bitaxe devices are SHA-256 only. LMC needs Scrypt hardware such as Antminer L3+/L7 or a GPU rig with Scrypt support.
Why does a SHA-256 pool run a Scrypt coin?: The pool software supports both algorithms, and Scrypt miners deserve honest SOLO options too. Lambda's community asked, we measured the network, and it fit.