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How to Mine Bitcoin Cash (BCH) on a Solo Mining Pool

⚠️ Solo Mining Pool

This is a solo mining pool. Each miner competes independently for the full block reward. Whoever finds the block receives the reward directly in the coinbase transaction, minus the pool fee. With low hashrate, blocks may be infrequent — this is expected behaviour, not a malfunction. [Pool fee: 2%]

Never use an exchange address for mining. Why not?

ASIC configuration

Any SHA-256 ASIC miner is compatible with this pool: Antminer S21/S21 XP/S23, Whatsminer M60/M66/M70/M79, Avalon A15/A16 and similar. Configuration is identical to Bitcoin — only the host, port and wallet address change.

Steps to configure your ASIC:

  1. Access your miner's web interface (local IP of the device, usually 192.168.x.x).
  2. Go to the pool configuration section (Pool Settings, Miner Configuration or similar).
  3. In Pool 1, enter the Stratum URL, your BCH address with the bitcoincash: prefix as username (e.g. bitcoincash:qXXX…), and any value as the password.
  4. Save the configuration. The miner will restart and begin mining.

SSL (encrypted)

stratum+ssl://bch.eu.ownblock.io:5151

TCP (standard)

stratum+tcp://bch.eu.ownblock.io:5252
Username (worker)
bitcoincash:YOUR_BCH_ADDRESS.WORKER

Your Bitcoin Cash address with the full bitcoincash: prefix — e.g. bitcoincash:qAbC…xyz.rig1. The worker (.rig1) is optional. Do not omit the bitcoincash: prefix — it is required by the pool.

Password
x

Any value — x is conventional.

Important: use the full bitcoincash:qXXX… format including the prefix. Omitting the prefix may cause payments to be lost. Do not use an exchange address — the payment arrives directly from the coinbase.

NiceHash

NiceHash is compatible with this pool using the SHA-256 with AsicBoost algorithm. When creating an order, use the host and port below with your BCH address as the username.

Enter these values in the NiceHash order form:

Algorithm
SHA256AsicBoost
Host
bch.eu.ownblock.io
Port
5252
Username
bitcoincash:YOUR_BCH_ADDRESS.workername

Your Bitcoin Cash address with full prefix — e.g. bitcoincash:qAbC…xyz.rig1. The bitcoincash: prefix is required.

Password
x

Any value works — x is the conventional choice.

Important: use the full bitcoincash:qXXX… format including the prefix. Omitting the prefix may cause payments to be lost. Do not use an exchange address — the payment arrives directly from the coinbase.

⚠️ MiningRigRentals (MRR)

MiningRigRentals is compatible with this pool. However, some rigs on MRR may be NiceHash resellers — you may be paying a markup over NiceHash prices with added latency. We recommend using NiceHash directly when possible.