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Documentation Index

Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.basedmining.xyz/llms.txt

Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

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The short version

  1. Miners — hardware, NFT-backed rentals, and (soon) agents — point hashpower at the pool.
  2. The pool aggregates that hashpower and works the current Bitcoin block.
  3. When a block is found:
    • The miner who solved it gets 1 BTC, paid directly by the Bitcoin protocol.
    • The remaining ~2.1+ BTC + fees is split proportionally among everyone who contributed to that round.
  4. NFT holders on Base get their share of pool rewards via $cbBTC. Sent directly to their wallet. No claim involved.
  5. Home miners connecting with a Bitcoin wallet get paid out via $BTC
  6. 0% operator fee on block rewards. The pool earns when you do, not from your mining.
  7. Payouts go out automatically.
That’s the whole thing. The rest of this page is just detail.

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The hybrid model

Most mining pools are one of two flavors:
  • Solo pools — finder takes everything; everyone else gets zero. Great if you win, brutal if you don’t.
  • Traditional pools (PPS / FPPS) — finder gets nothing extra; everything is split smoothly. Steady, but you never get a big hit.
BasedMining is hybrid:
  • Finder reward: fixed 1 BTC, paid by Bitcoin itself via the coinbase transaction. Chain-enforced — even the pool operator can’t reroute it.
  • Pool remainder: ~2.1+ BTC + fees, distributed proportionally to everyone who contributed work to that round, by accepted-share difficulty (PPLNS-by-diff).
So you get the upside of solo (a real shot at 1 BTC) plus the steady accrual of a traditional pool (your share of every block the pool finds). See The Hybrid Model for the deep dive, or Pool Comparisons for how this stacks up against solo and PPS pools.

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Where hashpower comes from

Home miners

Anyone running an ASIC machine— Bitaxe, Antminer, Nerdminer, etc. — pointing at our stratum endpoint.

Hashpower NFTs

NFT mints rent real spot-market hashpower and route it to the pool for the duration of a Block Party.

Agents (soon)

Programmatic hashpower purchases from AI agents, settled via x402. Mining skillsets shipping soon.

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Rounds and Block Parties

1

A round is open

A round starts the moment the previous block was approved. Every share submitted while the round is open counts toward your share of the eventual reward.
2

The pool finds a block

A miner connected to the pool finds a valid block and submits it to Bitcoin. The 1 BTC finder reward is paid by the Bitcoin protocol — no operator action needed.
3

The remainder is distributed

Based Pool agents distribute BTC and cbBTC, splitting it amongst contributors proportional to their work.
4

Rewards go out

Rewards are paid to:
  • Direct miners — to the BTC address registered on their worker
  • NFT holders — to the EVM address that holds the NFT
5

The next round opens

The cycle resets. Your shares from the previous round don’t carry over — the round model rewards work done in the most recent window.
Block Parties are scheduled 24-hour events where the pool concentrates extra hashpower (Hashpower NFT mints activate during these windows) into a single round. More hashpower in the same round = better odds of finding a block. Every Hashpower NFT mint auto-queues for the next Block Party.

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What you don’t have to do

Home-first

The pool is tuned for small miners. No minimum hashrate, no enterprise gating, no opaque scoring formulas.

On-chain rewards

NFT holders interact with mining the way they interact with everything else on Base — through their wallet.

Agent-ready

The pool is being designed so AI agents can buy optimization services per-call using x402. More on that .

Operator transparency

We publish what we do. Hashrate, fee, blocks found, and payouts are live on the dashboard.
  • Hardware miners receive BTC payouts directly to the address they registered as their worker username. We don’t custody it.
  • Hashpower NFT holders receive cbBTC payouts on Base proportional to the hashpower their NFT contributed. Sent directly. No claim, no approval, no wallet interaction.
  • Agents (when live) will receive payouts to the address attached to their x402 settlement payload.

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What you can do

Connect a miner

Five-minute setup. You’re contributing as soon as your first share lands.

Mint Hashpower

Four tiers from 15to15 to 250. Pay in ETH, USDC, or cbBTC.

Watch the live dashboard

Pool hashrate, leaderboards, network conditions — public.

Calculate your odds

Plug in a hashrate, see your probabilistic shot at the next block.