When can I start mining BTC1 here?

The pool's node is finishing its initial chain validation (days). The section goes live in the stats the moment sync completes — the ports above are already open.

Is BTC1 mineable with regular SHA-256 ASICs?

Yes — any SHA-256d hardware works, from Bitaxe to S21. The chain's complexity lives on the node side, not the miner side.

Bitcoin Purity (BTC1): the big fork your ASIC can actually mine

MineCraft Pool · 2026-10-24

TL;DR — Point your SHA-256d miner at stratum+tcp://btc1.minecraftpool.com:7808 and use your BTC1 wallet address as the username. Pool fee 1% until the payout buffer is funded, minimum payout announced at launch BTC1, 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://btc1.minecraftpool.com:7808
username: YOUR_BTC1_WALLET_ADDRESS.worker1
password: x

Stratum ports

URL	For hardware
`stratum+tcp://btc1.minecraftpool.com:7808`	small ASICs, varDiff (Bitaxe-class)
`stratum+tcp://btc1.minecraftpool.com:7809`	mid-range 10–100 TH/s
`stratum+tcp://btc1.minecraftpool.com:7810`	large farms >100 TH/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 Bitcoin Purity (BTC1)

Bitcoin Purity (BTC1) is the most discussed SHA-256 fork of 2026: a Bitcoin Knots descendant that hard-forked at block 961,637 to make its BIP110 'reduced data' rules permanent, with SHA-256d mining and full Bitcoin transaction compatibility. Twelve independent pools were mining it within weeks of launch. We connected on October 24, 2026; the node was still validating the chain from genesis at press time — SOLO payouts start the moment sync completes.

Pool parameters

Pool fee: 1% until the payout buffer is funded
Minimum payout: announced at launch BTC1
Algorithm: SHA-256d
Payout scheme: SOLO — the full block reward goes to the miner who found the block
Block explorer: https://mempool.bitcoinpurity.org/
Wallet: Bitcoin Purity v1.1.0 from the saltduck/bitcoinpurity GitHub releases

Practical notes

Two things make BTC1 unusual. First, its scale: the network carries Bitcoin-class block sizes and difficulty, so mining it means validating the whole pre-fork history — a pool-level commitment, invisible to your miner. Second, replay: BTC1 deliberately ships no replay protection against legacy Bitcoin, so keep addresses separate per chain (the project documents this honestly). Its block rewards are Bitcoin-sized — 3.125 BTC1 plus fees — which is why a solo find there is an event worth having hardware pointed at.

FAQ

When can I start mining BTC1 here?: The pool's node is finishing its initial chain validation (days). The section goes live in the stats the moment sync completes — the ports above are already open.
Is BTC1 mineable with regular SHA-256 ASICs?: Yes — any SHA-256d hardware works, from Bitaxe to S21. The chain's complexity lives on the node side, not the miner side.