Pool configurator

With a solo pool you almost always earn nothing and, in the rare event of a hit, the entire block. A regular pool pays tiny amounts steadily – with a home device those amounts are so small that many pools never reach the payout threshold. That is why most Bitaxe owners run solo: same hardware, same electricity, but an honest lottery ticket instead of dust.

In AxeOS 2.15 the field on the Pool page is called “User”, in NerdOS “Username”. For solo pools (Bitaxe Pool, OpenSourceMiners Pool, Public Pool, CKPool, OCEAN, your own node) your Bitcoin receiving address, optionally followed by a dot and a worker name such as bc1q….gamma1. Pools with an account such as Braiins use account name plus worker instead, e.g. myaccount.gamma1. A typo in the address means you are mining for a stranger – copy it, never type it.

No. The Stratum Host field takes only the hostname (stratum.bitaxe.de), the port goes into Stratum Port. AxeOS 2.15 splits a pasted address with stratum+tcp:// and port up by itself; older versions failed on it.

On solo pools nothing: they identify you by the address in the User field, pools with accounts by the account name. Enter “x” anyway, it is the usual convention.

In the AxeOS dashboard the Pool card shows address, response time and fee, the shares start rising and “Best Difficulty” grows within a minute or two. Accepted shares follow after a few minutes, depending on the pool difficulty. After 15 minutes without a share something is wrong – the diagnosis tool walks through the causes.

Yes. Give each one its own worker name after the dot (bc1q….gamma1, bc1q….gamma2). The pool shows them separately in its statistics, and a found block still goes to the one address.