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 1000 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.

compatibility

Hardware you can point at Ghost.

Any SHA-256d ASIC that speaks Stratum V1 or V2. Here are the configs people actually run.

Class	Protocol	Typical rate	Notes
Bitaxe / open-source	SV1	~1 TH/s	Set pool URL in the web UI, authorise as `addr.worker`. Zero-fuss.
Antminer / Whatsminer	SV1 (SV2 varies)	100–300 TH/s	Standard pool config. Use SV2 endpoint if firmware supports it; SV1 as a drop-in otherwise.
SV2 native miners	SV2	any	Encrypted Stratum transport with per-miner channels. Worker name flows through the TLV ext 0x0002 attribution extension so each ASIC's shares track to its own `address.worker`.
Solo / custom	SV1 or SV2	any	Run ghost-pool on your own node and point local hashers at it. Your node builds the template, your miners hash it. You get 100% of any block you find; pool fee still applies to the subsidy.

quickstart

Four steps to your first share.

No account, no forms. Pick an endpoint, set your address, start hashing.

1

Pick an endpoint

Connect to any public-mining Ghost node. SV1: stratum+tcp://<node-host>:3333. SV2: stratum+tcp://<node-host>:34255. Your own node works too if you're running ghost-pool locally.
2

Set your credentials

Username is your full payout address plus a worker name: bc1q…yourAddress.bitaxe1. Any string with a . separator works — one address can back many workers. Password field can be anything (x is fine).
3

Start hashing

Save the config on your miner and kick it over. Shares start flowing within seconds; each one lands on your unpaid ledger straight away.
4

Watch your stats

Paste your address into the lookup on the pool page to see hashrate, unpaid work, lifetime shares, and projected sats. Each worker gets its own page with a 24-hour hashrate chart.

Using the aggregated translator (default in most miners) or running SV2 with the aggregate_channels = false setting both work — in either case your shares are attributed to the exact address.worker string your ASIC authorised with.

ready?

Start hashing.

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

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Mine on Ghost.

A better deal for hashers.

Where every sat of the block reward goes.

Hardware you can point at Ghost.

Four steps to your first share.

Start hashing.