Mine SHIT directly

The honest guide. What merge mining means, what you need,
what you earn, and the easy path if you want it.

You can earn new SHIT coins by mining. The fastest way is to join the pool with the recipe below. You can also run your own mining setup, which this page explains step by step, or use the web miner on this site, which is covered at the bottom.

Join the pool: the 3-line recipe

Pool URL:  stratum+tcp://170.101.111.196:3333
Username:  your own Bitcoin address (.worker optional, for example .rig1)
Password:  your SHIT address sys=your SYS address nmc=your NMC address (or x if you only want Bitcoin)
  
Which port? The recipe above uses port 3333, the standard port: it starts at difficulty 32 and then adjusts to your miner automatically, which suits home miners and small rigs. Renting hash, or running a big farm? Use the same host on port 3334 instead: it starts at difficulty 1,048,576, never goes below 9,000, and has no ceiling.

  
Putting your SHIT address in the password field registers it when your miner connects. The pool pays the address your miner most recently connected with: to change where you get paid, change the address in your miner and reconnect. If the password is x, or anything that is not a valid SHIT address, no address is registered and your SHIT builds up and waits.

  
Taproot (bc1p) and exchange Bitcoin addresses can register a SHIT address in the password field like everyone else, but they cannot sign a message, so an address registered for them cannot be changed later.

  
Getting paid in SYS: To be paid Syscoin (SYS), put both addresses in the miner password field: your SHIT address, a space, then sys= followed by your Syscoin address, like this: shit1YOUR_SHIT_ADDRESS sys=YOUR_SYSCOIN_ADDRESS. A bare Syscoin address alone will not register Syscoin; it would be read as a SHIT address. First registration wins, same as SHIT.

  
Getting paid in NMC: To be paid Namecoin (NMC), add nmc= followed by your Namecoin address to the same password line, like this: shit1YOUR_SHIT_ADDRESS sys=YOUR_SYSCOIN_ADDRESS nmc=YOUR_NAMECOIN_ADDRESS. The nmc= tag is the only way to register Namecoin; a bare Namecoin address would be read as a SHIT address. First registration wins, same as the others.

  
Check your stats on the pool dashboard.

  
Payouts are PPLNS and run hourly, starting over 0.0005 BTC, 100 SHIT, 1 SYS and 1 NMC. Pool fees: 0% on BTC, SHIT, SYS and NMC, and there are no other deductions.

  
Prefer a checklist with dashboard checks? The miner setup guide covers the same connection step by step.

  
This is the join recipe. To run your own pool instead, see the pool operator setup guide.


  
1. Merge mining is required. There is no other way.

  
SHIT can only be merge mined. That means every SHIT block must include proof of work that was also done on Bitcoin. This proof is called AuxPoW, short for Auxiliary Proof of Work. It is a small piece of data in the SHIT block header that proves you did valid work on a Bitcoin block at the same time.

  
The network rejects any block that does not carry valid AuxPoW. There is no standalone SHIT mining. If someone offers you a miner that mines SHIT alone, it cannot work. You mine Bitcoin, and the same work earns you SHIT on top, with no extra energy and no extra hardware.


  
2. What you need

  
To mine with your own setup you need three things.

  
    
    
  1. syscoind, synced. This is the ShitcoinBTC node software. It connects to the network, keeps a copy of the chain, and builds the SHIT blocks you will mine on. Download the source from GitHub and let it sync fully before you start.
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  2. A Bitcoin block source. Your AuxPoW comes from real Bitcoin work. Most miners either run their own Bitcoin Core node or join a mining pool that supports merge mining. Either way, the Bitcoin side is where the proof comes from.
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  3. Merged mining software or a merge mining pool. This is the part that builds SHIT blocks containing your AuxPoW and hashes them. SHIT uses the same hashing algorithm as Bitcoin, SHA256d, so the same mining machines work for both. A laptop or phone cannot compete on its own. Small miners should use the web miner at the bottom of this page.
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3. The commands: getting work and submitting blocks

  
For merge mining, ShitcoinBTC uses the standard merged mining calls, the same style Namecoin uses. Everything below runs against your own synced syscoind.

  
First, make a payout address. This is the SHIT address your reward will be paid to:

  
syscoin-cli getnewaddress

  
Then ask your node for work:

  
syscoin-cli createauxblock <your-address>

  
It hands back a block hash and a target. You commit to the SHIT block inside your Bitcoin block's coinbase. That commitment is the AuxPoW. Then you hash until you find a header that beats the target. Any merged mining capable SHA256 setup works.

  
When you find one, submit the proof:

  
syscoin-cli submitauxblock <hash> <auxpow-hex>

  
The network checks the AuxPoW and the work. If both are valid, your block joins the chain and the reward pays your address.

  
The node also answers the generic getblocktemplate call, which returns a raw block template to build on:

  
syscoin-cli getblocktemplate

  
For merge mining, stick with createauxblock and submitauxblock above, because that pair is the path that carries the AuxPoW. The Mine page has a slower step by step walkthrough of the same flow, and pool operators get their own setup guide in the pool operator setup guide.


  
4. The block reward, and where it goes

  
Every new SHIT block creates about 178.26 new SHIT. This number drops about 2 percent each year, so rewards slowly shrink over time.

  

    
~178.26

    
~178.26

  

  
The full block reward, about 178.26 SHIT, goes to the miner. There is no governance cut. The reward is paid by the network itself, in brand new coins, to the SHIT address the miner put in the coinbase when building the block. Coinbase here means the first transaction in the block, the one that creates the new coins. Once the block is accepted, the coins appear in that address. Nobody holds them in between. There is no middleman.


  
Honest math. Mining income is luck plus hash power. More hashes per second means more chances to find a block, but any single block can go to anyone. Never pay for a miner or a pool seat with money you cannot afford to lose, and never trust a pool that asks for your private keys or seed phrase. A real pool only needs your payout address.


  
5. The easy path: the web miner

  
If running your own setup sounds like a lot, use the web miner on this site. Open the Mine page and start mining right in your browser. No node to run, no Bitcoin setup, no command line.

  
The web miner pools everyone's work. When the pool earns a block reward, it is split three ways: 15 percent to miners, 70 percent burned, and 15 percent to the project team. Burned means the coins are sent to an address nobody can ever spend from, so they leave the supply forever. On the Mine page we keep it simple and highlight the big number: 70 percent of every reward is burned.

  
One more honest detail. The burn applies to blocks found through the browser miner. If you point real hash at the pool instead, there is no burn. Pool fees are 0% on BTC, SHIT, SYS and NMC, and there are no other deductions. The full block reward, about 178 SHIT, goes to you only when you run your own setup. The choice is yours: easy in the browser with the burn, the pool for no fee, or the full reward with your own setup.

  
Open the web miner


  
Questions about mining? shitcoinbtc21@gmail.com