Getting started

This pool is on testnet. Point a B3PoW-Scratch miner at stratum+tcp://pool.b3chain.org:3333. Username format is <email>.<workerName>. The password is ignored. Shares are recorded when that email matches a registered account. Payouts require a verified email.

Reference miner

The repo's b3chain-cpuminer.py speaks Stratum and checks B3PoW-Scratch shares. It is for connectivity checks, not production hashrate.

python3 b3chain-cpuminer.py \
  --stratum stratum+tcp://pool.b3chain.org:3333 \
  --user you@example.com.rig1 --pass x

Difficulty

Configured starting difficulty is 1024. The live network difficulty is 0.0006008. Miners are assigned 0.0006008 on the current job, the easier of the configured start and the network target. Variable difficulty is off. The assignment above is what a new connection receives for the current job.

The pool checks each share with B3PoW-Scratch, the same proof the node uses for a block. A share that also meets the network target is submitted as a block.