Mining guides
Step-by-step instructions to connect your miner to mkpool and get to your first accepted share, plus the tuning, diagnostics and strategy that come after. Every connection detail is pulled from the live pool config, so the hosts and ports here are always current.
Setup & First Share
Point a miner at mkpool and get to your first accepted share, step by step.
Connect Any Miner to mkpool: The Universal Setup Guide (2026)
One pattern connects every miner to mkpool: a stratum URL, your own wallet address as the username, and the password x. Match your hardware's algorithm to a chain, pick a port, and mine straight to your wallet, no account, no custody.
Mecanik1337Read →Antminer S21 Series: Solo Mining Setup on mkpool (2026)
Point an Antminer S21, S21 Pro, S21 XP or S21 Hydro at mkpool and solo mine straight to your own wallet. Web UI access, exact stratum ports, difficulty tiers, TLS and Stratum V2, AsicBoost, fleet naming and how to verify the connection.
Mecanik1337Read →Bitaxe Solo Mining Setup on mkpool (2026)
The Bitaxe is the simplest way into solo mining: a single-chip, open-source miner you set up in a browser in minutes. Here is the full setup on mkpool, AxeOS, exact stratum settings, the current models, and how to confirm it is hashing to your own wallet.
Mecanik1337Read →Hardware
Model-specific setup, tuning and buying guidance for ASICs and open-source boards.
NerdQAxe++ and NerdOCTAxe: Solo Mining Setup on mkpool (2026)
The NerdQAxe++ and NerdOCTAxe are multi-chip open-source home miners built on BM1370 silicon. Set one up on mkpool through AxeOS in minutes, mining straight to your own wallet: full specs, exact stratum settings and verification.
Mecanik1337Read →Whatsminer M50, M60 and M66: Solo Mining Setup on mkpool (2026)
Point a MicroBT Whatsminer M50, M60 or M66 at mkpool and solo mine to your own wallet. The Whatsminer web UI, exact stratum ports, difficulty, and a verified spec table across the current air- and immersion-cooled models.
Mecanik1337Read →Avalon Nano 3S: Solo Mining Setup on mkpool (2026)
Canaan's Avalon Nano 3S is a quiet, turnkey desktop miner with three power modes, up to 6 TH/s. Here is how to point it at mkpool for solo mining to your own wallet: the pool settings, the power modes, and how to verify it is hashing.
Mecanik1337Read →Connection & Security
Stratum ports, difficulty tiers, TLS and encrypted Stratum V2 explained.
Which Stratum Port and Difficulty Should You Use? (2026)
mkpool offers vardiff and fixed-difficulty ports on every chain. Here is what share difficulty actually is, why it does not change your block odds, and exactly which port to use for a Bitaxe, an owned ASIC, or rented NiceHash hashrate.
Mecanik1337Read →AsicBoost and Version-Rolling on mkpool: How It Works and How to Confirm It (2026)
AsicBoost, overt AsicBoost, the version-rolling kind, makes SHA-256 hashing a little more efficient. On mkpool it is automatic: the pool advertises version-rolling and any capable miner negotiates it at connect. Here is what it does and how to confirm it.
Mecanik1337Read →Encrypted Solo Mining: TLS and Stratum V2 Setup on mkpool (2026)
Plain stratum sends your address and work in the clear. mkpool offers two encrypted options on every SHA-256 chain: Stratum V1 over TLS, and authenticated Stratum V2 over Noise. Here is what each protects, which firmware supports it, and the exact URLs.
Mecanik1337Read →Diagnostics
Read your worker stats, verify a healthy miner, and fix rejects and disconnects.
Reading Your Worker Stats on mkpool (2026)
What every number on your mkpool dashboard means: the hashrate windows, valid/invalid/stale shares, current difficulty, last share, and best share, including why best share is a record of how close you came, not progress toward a block.
Mecanik1337Read →Miner Will Not Connect or Keeps Rejecting? Troubleshooting on mkpool (2026)
A step-by-step fix-it guide for the common stratum problems: a miner that will not connect, one that connects but submits no shares, and one that rejects, goes stale, or keeps dropping. Match your symptom to its cause and its fix.
Mecanik1337Read →Miner Health Check: Is Your ASIC Performing at 100%? (2026)
A practical health check for any solo miner: confirm hashrate, hashboards, temperatures, fans and power on the miner, cross-check reject rate and hashrate on the mkpool dashboard, and match each symptom to its likely cause and fix.
Mecanik1337Read →Strategy & Rental
Choose a chain, weigh owned versus rented hashrate, and understand your real odds.
Renting Hashrate for Solo Mining on mkpool (2026)
How to rent SHA-256 hashrate from NiceHash, MiningRigRentals or Braiins and point it at mkpool for a solo shot at a block: the exact pool settings, why you must use a fixed-difficulty port, and how to size the odds of a burst honestly.
Mecanik1337Read →Owned vs Rented Hashrate for Solo Mining (2026)
You can buy an ASIC or rent hashrate by the hour. Owning spreads modest hashrate over years; renting concentrates a lot into one short shot. Here is the honest economics of each, including why renting to solo mine is a lottery ticket, not a profit plan.
Mecanik1337Read →Which Coin Should You Solo Mine on mkpool? (2026)
Your hardware can point at any chain its algorithm supports, but the choice is a real trade-off between prize size, how often you would win, and how much risk the chain carries. Here is how to think it through across mkpool's coins.
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