Mining

Miners are essential to the health of the Iron Fish network. Without them, blocks won't be generated and transactions won't be transmitted.

It's also the key algorithm used to determine consensus and is important to be distributed among many different sets of miners. If any one miner controls too much of the mining power, it will compromise decentralization.

This page primarily discusses the mining landscape and how to join and choose an existing pool, or to start your own.

What is a mining pool? 

A mining pool pools block rewards and distributes them via various reward distribution schemes such as PPLNS (Pay Per Last N Shares). It is unlikely for small miners to find blocks, so pools provide a steady income in return for a fee. They may also provide other services such as customer support or custom software. Pools also run the node for you so that you do not need to maintain your own.

Mining Pools 

Please check out the ecosystem page for a list of mining pools that support Iron Fish.

⚠️️ Note: Any pool with greater than 45% hash rate is hidden from this list. Please do not join a mining pool that has more than 45% hash rate. It is very important to promote decentralization.

Mining Software 

Iron Fish 

• Type: CPU
• Url: https://ironfish.network/use/get-started/mining
• Works on Iron Fish stratum v1

SRBMiner 

• Type: GPU (Nvidia+AMD)
• URL: https://www.srbminer.com/
• Works on Iron Fish Pool

BzMiner 

• Type: GPU (Nvidia+AMD+Intel+CPU)
• URL: https://www.bzminer.com/ Discord https://discord.gg/ZagsB4hTUM
• Betas supporting Iron Fish available in #mining in Discord: https://discord.ironfish.network/
• Improved Iron Fish mining stratum for Flexpool coming soon
• Supports Iron+ZIL Dual mining and Iron+ETC+ZIL Triple Mining using Flexpool's ZMP

Rigel 

• Type: GPU (Nvidia)
• URL: https://github.com/rigelminer/rigel/releases/
• Pools supported: Herominers, Flexpool, Kryptex
• Supports dual and triple mining (+ZIL)

Team Red Miner 

• Type: GPU (AMD)
• URL: https://github.com/todxx/teamredminer/releases
• Supports dual and triple mining (ETC/ERG/ZIL, ETC/ERG + ZIL)

lolMiner 

• Type: GPU (Nvidia+AMD+Intel)
• URL: https://github.com/Lolliedieb/lolMiner-releases

HPool 

• Type: GPU (Nvidia+AMD)
• Url: https://github.com/hpool-dev/ironfish-miner/releases
• Only works on Hpool's pool

ZKWork 

• Type: GPU (Nvidia+AMD)
• URL: https://zk.work
• Only works on ZKWork's pool

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