Mining guides
Pick your hardware. Every guide uses the same pool, the same host and the same payout rules: rewards are written straight to your own address in each block, and the pool never holds your coins.
MergedHash is a non-custodial SHA-256 pool for eCash (ECX) and Bitcoin. Any miner that speaks Stratum V1 can connect: you point it at mine.mergedhash.com, use your own bc1q address as the user name, and choose a port. There is no account, no balance and no minimum payout. When a block is found, the reward is written straight to the miners' addresses in that block's coinbase, minus a 1% fee. The same work also merge-mines Namecoin, Fractal Bitcoin and Hathor.
The guides below go step by step for each kind of hardware: which boxes to fill in, which port suits your hashrate, and how to check that your miner is being counted. If you are not sure whether to mine solo or shared, read solo vs PPLNS first; mining is never guaranteed to pay, and solo mining in particular is luck.
Bitaxe, NerdQAxe, NerdOctaxe
Home and open-source miners running AxeOS or NerdOS: which boxes to fill in, solo or shared, and how to add a Hathor address.
Antminer, Whatsminer, Avalon
ASICs and farms: pool settings, the high-difficulty ports, the d= password option, proxies and ASICBoost.
Rented hashrate
NiceHash, MiningRigRentals and Braiins Hashpower: which port to give them, starting difficulty and worker names.
Background reading
What is merged mining?
How the same work also mines Namecoin, Fractal Bitcoin and Hathor at no extra hashrate.
Solo vs shared (PPLNS)
How each port pays, what variance means for small miners, and how coinbase payouts work.
eCash sidechain fees
BIP300/301 sidechains pay eCash miners to include their commitments. On MergedHash those fees go to the miners.
Pool addresses
| Chain | Solo (finder gets the block) | Shared (PPLNS) |
|---|---|---|
| eCash (ECX) | mine.mergedhash.com:3335 | mine.mergedhash.com:3338 |
| Bitcoin (BTC) | mine.mergedhash.com:3345 | mine.mergedhash.com:3348 |
| eCash · high difficulty | mine.mergedhash.com:3337 | mine.mergedhash.com:3339 |
| Bitcoin · high difficulty | mine.mergedhash.com:3346 | mine.mergedhash.com:3349 |
Username: YOUR_BC1_ADDRESS.workername · Password: x (options: d= starting difficulty, htr= Hathor address). Live state of every port: status page.
More guides: Bitaxe, NerdQAxe and NerdOctaxe · Antminer, Whatsminer and Avalon · Rented hashrate · Merged mining · Solo vs PPLNS · FAQ