Miners · Bitcoin Ghost

why mine at ghost

A better deal for hashers.

Ghost Pool was built on the idea that miners should keep more of what they earn, get paid directly on-chain, and never hand their credentials to an operator.

1% fee, subsidy only

The pool takes 1% of the block subsidy — split 50/50 between treasury and the node reward pool. Zero cut of transaction fees.
100% of TX fees to the winner

When a block is found, transaction fees are paid in full to the node that built the winning template — no haircut to the pool, no hidden skim.
Ledger-style payouts

Every share you submit accumulates on your unpaid ledger until you're paid. Shares never evaporate from template rolls — your work carries forward across blocks.
On-chain, non-custodial

Payouts land in the coinbase of every block Ghost finds — direct to your Bitcoin address. The pool never takes custody of your sats.
Stratum V1 and V2

Run what your ASIC already speaks. SV1 on port 3333 for legacy hardware, SV2 on 34255 for encrypted transport and per-miner channels. Miners hash against the node's template — Ghost doesn't run job declaration, so transaction selection stays with the node operator.
Any SHA-256 ASIC

Bitaxe, Whatsminer, Antminer, Avalon — if it hashes double-SHA256 and talks Stratum, it works. No vendor lock-in, no firmware restrictions.
No registration, no KYC

There's no account to create. Your payout address IS your identity. Plug in, authorise with <your-address>.<worker>, and start hashing.
Solo or pooled, your call

Run your own node and mine against the templates your node builds — or point at someone else's public-mining node and pool up. Same protocol, same payouts either way.

payout economics

Where every sat of the block reward goes.

Transparent by construction. No "variance" buffer, no mystery withholdings — the full split is on-chain in every coinbase the pool builds.

to miners

99%

of block subsidy, proportional to unpaid work

to treasury

0.5%

of block subsidy, until 21 BTC cap

to node reward pool

0.5%

of block subsidy, to node operators

tx fees

100%

to whichever node finds the block

Ledger model: your share is unpaid work / total unpaid work across every active miner. Top 200 unpaid positions are paid per block; miners below that threshold carry forward until they clear the dust line. See the Pool page's "In line to get paid" for the live queue.

quickstart

Connect a miner in seconds.

No account. No sign-up. No KYC. Your payout address is your identity — paste it in, pick your Stratum version, and copy the exact settings for your miner.

Your payout address Worker name

Stratum version

One address can back as many workers as you like — give each ASIC its own worker name. Shares land on your unpaid ledger within seconds. Track them any time by pasting your address into the lookup on the pool page — no login.

The settings above point at the public pool — open to anyone, no permission needed. Some operators instead run a private pool you join with a password they give you, or mine solo on their own node. Those are choices the node operator makes — see the three mining modes if you want to run your own node and decide how its hashpower is used.

the mesh

Every public node, live.

pool.bitcoinghost.org is a convenience, not the pool — it balances you across nodes. The pool is the mesh below, and you can point a miner at any node in it directly. Nothing here is a hardcoded list: the page asks a node, and the node reports itself and every peer it is connected to, so a node that joins tonight appears here on its own.

Asking the mesh…

SV1 works against any node on the list, and against pool.bitcoinghost.org — it authenticates nothing, so the address you point at does not have to be a specific machine. SV2 is different: it pins the node's authority key, every node has its own, and so an SV2 miner has to name one node. The quickstart above will give you a node's host and its matching key together.

Picking a node yourself is the point, not a workaround — it is what keeps the pool from depending on one name resolving. Your payouts are identical wherever you connect: shares are pooled across the whole mesh and paid against your address, not against the node that happened to take them.

ready?

Start hashing.

Every share, every block, direct to your address. No middleman.

Quickstart → Look up your miner

Mine on Ghost.

A better deal for hashers.

Where every sat of the block reward goes.

Connect a miner in seconds.

Every public node, live.

Start hashing.