Miner Setup Guide

What you need

A SHA-256 ASIC or SHA-256 mining software. The same machines that mine Bitcoin mine here. One connection merge-mines Bitcoin, SHIT, Syscoin and Namecoin together.
A Bitcoin address you control. It is your username, and it is where your BTC is paid.
A SHIT address for your SHIT payouts, and a Syscoin and a Namecoin address if you want those coins too.

The pool only ever needs your payout addresses. Never give any pool your private keys or seed phrase.

Step 1: pick a port

Port 3333Standard port. Starts at difficulty 32, then adjusts to your miner automatically (vardiff). For home miners and small rigs.

Port 3334High difficulty port. Starts at difficulty 1,048,576 and never goes below 9,000. For rented hash and big farms.

Small miner on 3334 will struggle to send shares. Big farm on 3333 will send too many. Pick the one that fits.

Step 2: enter these settings

Pool URLstratum+tcp://170.101.111.196:3333

Usernameyour own Bitcoin address (.worker optional, for example .rig1)

Passwordone line: your SHIT address, then sys= and nmc= tags for the other coins

Host:      170.101.111.196
Port:      3333 (or 3334 for rented hash and big farms)
Username:  your own Bitcoin address
Password:  your SHIT address sys=your SYS address nmc=your NMC address

The full password line, with placeholder addresses, looks like this:

shit1YOUR_SHIT_ADDRESS sys=YOUR_SYSCOIN_ADDRESS nmc=YOUR_NAMECOIN_ADDRESS

The first token is your SHIT address. It has no tag. Whatever sits in that spot is read as a SHIT address.
sys= and nmc= tags are how you register Syscoin and Namecoin. Without the tag, the pool cannot tell those addresses apart from a SHIT address, so tagged is the only way.
Only want Bitcoin? Use the password x. Only want some of the coins? Leave the other tags off.

Step 3: your password line is your payout setup

Read this before you connect. Your payout addresses are the ones on your password line. The pool pays the addresses your miner most recently connected with, for every coin. If an address is wrong, fix it in your miner and reconnect: the new address takes over for future payouts. Nothing is locked and there is no form to fill in. Check the line before you start the miner.

If the password is x, or the first token is not a valid SHIT address, no SHIT address is registered and your SHIT builds up at the pool and waits. It is not lost; it pays out once an address is registered.

Step 4: check your worker on the dashboard

Give it a few minutes, then open the pool dashboard and look for your worker (your Bitcoin address, plus the worker name if you set one). You want to see shares being accepted. If your worker never appears, re-check the host, the port, and that the username is exactly your Bitcoin address.

Getting paid

Method	PPLNS (pay per last N shares). Your share of each block reward matches your share of the work.
Schedule	Hourly. Balances over the minimum are paid out once an hour.
Minimum payout	0.0005 BTC, 100 SHIT, 1 SYS and 1 NMC. Smaller balances keep building until they cross the line.
Pool fee	0 percent on BTC, SHIT, SYS and NMC. There are no other deductions.
Paid to	Your own wallet addresses: Bitcoin to your username address, SHIT, SYS and NMC to the addresses you registered in the password field.

Bitcoin pays only when the pool finds a Bitcoin block, which is luck plus hash power. SHIT pays whenever the pool finds a SHIT block, which happens far more often. Mining income is never a promise.

Live pool URLs

Every address below was checked working before this page was published.

Dashboardhttp://170.101.111.196:8080/

Stratumstratum+tcp://170.101.111.196:3333 (standard) · stratum+tcp://170.101.111.196:3334 (high difficulty)

Pool statushttp://170.101.111.196:8091/api/v1/pool/status

Pool pageshitcoinbtc.xyz/pool (live status, renting guide, full terms)

Renting hash instead?

You do not need to own a miner. Rent SHA-256 hash, use port 3334, and the same username and password format above. The renting section of the Pool page has the exact NiceHash and MiningRigRentals settings.

Running your own pool instead?

The pool above is our own pool software, and it is live and paying out. If you want to run a pool of your own on the SHIT chain instead of joining ours, that is the self-hosted path: the pool operator setup guide plus the stratum proxy and yiimp adapter on the downloads page.

If something looks wrong

Worker not on the dashboard after 10 minutes: check host, port, and username first. Most failures are a typo in one of the three.
BTC building but no SHIT: your password's first token is not a valid SHIT address, so nothing registered. Fix the line; your SHIT has been building up and waiting.
SYS or NMC not moving: the sys= and nmc= tags are missing or misspelled on the password line.
Almost no shares on port 3334: that port starts at difficulty 1,048,576. Small miners belong on 3333.

Questions about the pool? shitcoinbtc21@gmail.com