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Live pilot in progress · public payouts at launch

Mine BTX together.
Keep more of it.

An open, low-fee pool for BTX — the post-quantum, matmul proof-of-work chain. Point any minebtx-compatible miner at us and pool your hashrate. Flat 3% fee, daily payouts.

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shares ▸ block ▸ ◂ block reward to pool ◂ daily payout, split by shares ⛏ Your GPU any NVIDIA card runs the open-source miner Useful Pool validates your shares builds + submits the block splits reward by shares, daily ◎ BTX network EU + US nodes block accepted → reward
You mine · the pool finds blocks more often by combining everyone’s work · rewards flow back daily, split by the shares you contributed.
3%flat fee
Dailypayouts
EU + USlow-orphan nodes
MITopen-source miner
Live

Pool status

connecting…

—active miners
—shares / min
—shares accepted
—blocks found
—network height
Your miner

Check your shares & balance

Paste the BTX payout address you mine with to see your recent shares and your current unpaid balance. No account — it’s keyed by your public address.

How it works

Solo mining is all-or-nothing. Pooling makes it smooth.

Solo-mining BTX means waiting days for a single block. A pool combines everyone’s hashrate, finds blocks far more often, and splits the reward by the work you contributed — so your payouts are frequent and predictable instead of feast-or-famine.

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Keep your own miner

We speak stratum/2.0-matmul — the same protocol as the open-source minebtx miner. No new software to trust: use the client you already have and change one line.

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Smooth, frequent payouts

Each GPU gets an easy share target and submits proof-of-work every few seconds. You’re credited (PPLNS) for every share. When a share also clears the network target, that’s a block — and everyone who contributed gets paid.

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Built to not lose blocks

Two full nodes (EU + US) with fast propagation keep our orphan rate low, so the blocks we find actually stick. The pool builds and submits the block for you — you just mine.

Get started

Start mining

Already mine BTX with the minebtx client? You’re one line away. New to BTX? The whole setup is about two minutes on any NVIDIA GPU (Pascal through Blackwell).

Get the miner

Install the open-source BTX miner (MIT-licensed) — it includes the GPU solver.

# installs the dexbtx-miner client + GPU solver
curl -fsSL https://minebtx.com/install.sh | bash

Point it at Useful Pool

Set the pool URL to ours and your BTX payout address. That’s the only change.

pool:
  url:     stratum+tcp://stratum.usefulpool.com:3333   # live pilot endpoint
  address: btx1z<your-payout-address>
  worker:  rig-1

Run it

Shares start flowing immediately and you’re credited (PPLNS) for each one. Daily payouts to your address go live at public launch — no account, no custody of your coins.

dexbtx-miner --config your-config.yaml

Endpoints

Europe · livestratum+tcp://stratum.usefulpool.com:3333
US · at launchus.usefulpool.com
TLS · at launchstratum+ssl://…:3334
🔒 Encrypted TLS on :3334 and the US endpoint land at public launch. During the pilot, connect over :3333.
Fees & payouts

One number, no surprises.

A flat 3% pool fee on block rewards — the other 97% is split among miners by contributed shares (PPLNS). No hidden cuts, no orphan losses passed to you.

 Useful PoolTypical BTX pool
Pool fee3% flat2.5–3% (+ hidden orphan loss)
Payout scheduleDailyWeekly
Encrypted (TLS) stratumAt launchplaintext
Propagation nodesEU + USsingle region
Reward modelPPLNSPPLNS / prop
Clientopen-source (MIT)open-source (MIT)
Questions

Frequently asked

What is BTX?
BTX is a proof-of-work cryptocurrency that uses a matrix-multiplication PoW (post-quantum, from the same research as Pearl). It mines on GPUs. Useful Pool helps you mine it profitably by pooling hashrate so payouts are frequent and smooth.
Do I need special software?
No. Useful Pool speaks the exact stratum/2.0-matmul protocol of the open-source minebtx client. If you already mine BTX, change one endpoint line. If you don’t, install it with the one-liner above — it includes the GPU solver.
Which GPUs work?
Any modern NVIDIA card — Pascal (10-series), Turing, Ampere (30-series), Ada (40-series), Hopper, and Blackwell (50-series). The solver ships cubins for sm_61/75/86/89/90/120.
How and when do I get paid?
You’re credited for every valid share (PPLNS). Daily payouts go directly to the BTX address you set in your miner — no account sign-up, and the pool never holds your coins beyond the daily batch.
Is there a minimum payout? When are payouts sent?
Payouts run once daily. The minimum is 0.001 BTX — balances below that roll forward and accumulate to the next daily batch until they clear, so nothing is ever lost to tiny-amount thresholds. Only matured block rewards (100 confirmations) are included in a batch.
Why 3%?
It funds the EU+US node infrastructure, TLS, fast block propagation (so we lose fewer blocks to orphans), and daily payouts. We’d rather charge a clear flat rate and keep your blocks on-chain than advertise 2.5% and quietly lose blocks to orphans.
Is it safe? Do you take my keys?
Never. Your miner only ever sends the pool your public payout address and your proof-of-work shares. There are no private keys on your machine that we see, and we don’t custody your mined coins beyond the daily payout transaction.

Ready to pool your hashrate?

Point any minebtx-compatible miner at Useful Pool and start earning smooth, daily BTX payouts.

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