For farms and large miners
MergedHash pays every block straight to miners inside the block itself. There's no pool wallet, so there's no balance to lose, freeze or wait for. One connection mines eCash or Bitcoin and merge-mines Namecoin, Fractal Bitcoin and Hathor at no extra hashrate. The fee is a flat 1%, and transaction fees and eCash sidechain fees go to miners too.
Connection settings
Same host, same pool, same payouts and fee. Use the high-difficulty ports for rented hashrate (NiceHash, Braiins Hashpower) and farm proxies: they start at difficulty 1,048,576 and never go below 262,144. Single ASICs can use either set.
| Chain | Solo (finder gets the block) | Shared (PPLNS) |
|---|---|---|
| Bitcoin | stratum+tcp://mine.mergedhash.com:3345 | stratum+tcp://mine.mergedhash.com:3348 |
| eCash | stratum+tcp://mine.mergedhash.com:3335 | stratum+tcp://mine.mergedhash.com:3338 |
| Bitcoin · high difficulty | stratum+tcp://mine.mergedhash.com:3346 | stratum+tcp://mine.mergedhash.com:3349 |
| eCash · high difficulty | stratum+tcp://mine.mergedhash.com:3337 | stratum+tcp://mine.mergedhash.com:3339 |
Username: YOUR_BC1_ADDRESS.workername (use a bc1q address you hold the keys to: it receives Bitcoin/eCash, Namecoin and Fractal rewards).
Password: x, plus options separated by commas:
d=NNNN: starting share difficulty and the lowest the pool will set for this connection. Vardiff then tunes it to about 6–12 shares a minute.htr=YOUR_H_ADDRESS: also earn Hathor (it needs its own address).
Example for a farm proxy: x,d=67108864,htr=H…
| Hashrate on one connection | Suggested d= |
|---|---|
| up to 1 PH/s (single ASICs, small proxy) | leave it out, or d=262144 |
| 1–20 PH/s | d=4194304 |
| 20–200 PH/s | d=67108864 |
| 200 PH/s and up | d=1073741824 |
Without d=, vardiff still settles a 50 PH/s connection within seconds. d= just avoids the burst of easy shares at the start.
Proxies and fleets
- Rented hashrate (NiceHash, Braiins Hashpower): use the high-difficulty ports (3346 / 3349 Bitcoin, 3337 / 3339 eCash). Minimum difficulty 262,144.
- Farm proxies (Braiins Farm Proxy, stratum proxies): one upstream connection with many workers behind it is fine.
mining.configureversion rolling (ASICBoost) is supported, and so ismining.extranonce.subscribe. Extranonce2 is 8 bytes, plenty to split between downstream workers. - Direct ASICs: Antminer, Whatsminer and Avalon work as-is, as can thousands of connections from one site.
- Share rate: each connection is kept to a few shares per second at most.
- Stratum V2: on the roadmap, not available yet.
How payouts work at scale
Solo ports: the block pays the finder's address directly, minus 1%.
Shared (PPLNS) ports: each block pays the miners in the recent-shares window directly in its coinbase, by their share of the work in that window, minus 1%.
- Window: the last shares worth 2× the network difficulty.
- Outputs per block: a coinbase holds a limited number of payout outputs (currently 19 miners plus the fee). The largest contributors are paid in that block.
- Small contributions are never lost: a miner whose share is too small for its own output, or who doesn't fit in this block's outputs, keeps their shares in the window for a later block. Their part of this block goes to the other paid miners, never to the pool.
- Spendable after 100 confirmations, like any coinbase.
Why no PPS / FPPS? Pay-per-share means the pool pays you from its own wallet before blocks are found, which requires holding miners' money. MergedHash never holds anyone's coins, so it can't promise per-share payments. The trade-off is zero custody and counterparty risk, with block-based variance.
Live pool numbers
The same data as the status page.
| Chain | Pool hashrate | Miners | Workers | Round effort | Template age |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Talk to us
Pointing serious hashrate here, or need something specific (a starting difficulty, a dedicated endpoint, reporting)? Email mine@mergedhash.com or join the MergedHash Discord.