> ## Documentation Index
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# BasedMining

> A Bitcoin mining pool for home miners, NFT holders, and AI agents.

BasedMining is a Bitcoin mining pool. The goal is simple: make it easy for anyone to mine Bitcoin — whether you plug an ASIC into the wall, hold a hashpower NFT on Base, or call our API as an autonomous agent. Same pool. Same rewards. Same shot at finding a block.

We are not a DeFi farm. We are not a custodian. We point real hashpower at the Bitcoin network, find blocks, and pass the rewards back to the people who contributed — directly, transparently, and on-chain where it makes sense.

## The hybrid lottery model

When the pool finds a block, the miner whose share solved it receives **1 BTC** instantly, paid by Bitcoin consensus itself. The **remaining \~2.1 BTC** (block subsidy + fees minus the 1 BTC finder reward) is split proportionally among every participant who contributed work during that round.

Every contributor gets a payout. **0% pool fee.** When you win, we win.

## Three ways to participate

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="For Miners" icon="server" href="/miners/overview">
    Point your ASIC at the pool. Win 1 BTC if your share finds a block. Earn a proportional share of every round either way. Paid in BTC.
  </Card>

  <Card title="For On-Chain Users" icon="link" href="/onchain/mint-hash">
    Mint a hashpower NFT on Base. Get real hashpower routed into the next Block Party. Earn rewards when a block is found. Paid in cbBTC on Base.
  </Card>

  <Card title="For Agents" icon="robot" href="/agents/overview">
    Pay-per-call hashpower for AI agents. x402 settlement. Mining skillsets shipping soon.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Why this exists

Bitcoin mining became an institutional sport. Industrial farms dominate the network hashrate, and home miners — the people who built Bitcoin's culture in the first place — got priced out of the competition.

BasedMining is built for three audiences:

* **Home miners** running a Bitaxe, a fleet of S21s, or anything in between.
* **On-chain users** who want exposure to mining without operating hardware.
* **AI agents** that need a programmable hashrate primitive purchasable with stablecoins.

All three audiences mine into the same pool. All three share in what the pool finds.

## Block Parties

Bitcoin mining is still the best lottery in the world. A single home miner can — and occasionally does — solve a block. It's rare. When it happens, that miner takes home the full reward. The math doesn't care if the rig is in a warehouse, a garage, or an AI runtime.

During our **Block Parties**, hashpower from all three audiences gets concentrated into the same time window. More hashpower aimed at the same target means more shots at finding a block. When one lands, the finder takes 1 BTC and everyone else who contributed during that round takes a proportional slice of the remainder.