HashedMax Unity Pool (hmpool.io) - Solo Bitcoin Mining for Everyone

[hashedmax]

Hey everyone, wanted to share a pool we've been building and running called HashedMax Unity Pool at hmpool.io. It's a solo Bitcoin mining pool designed to give smaller miners a real shot while keeping things transparent and fair.

Here's what makes it different:

Hybrid Payout System We run a hybrid model. When any miner on the pool finds a block, 2% goes to the pool as a fee, 10% goes directly to the miner who found it as a finder's bonus, and the remaining 88% is distributed to all active miners proportional to their shares over a 24-hour PPLNS window. So you get the thrill of solo mining with the safety net of pooled rewards. Everyone contributing hashrate gets paid when anyone hits a block.

Built for All Hardware We have dedicated stratum ports tuned for different hardware tiers. Whether you're running a Bitaxe, a single S19, or a rack of S21 Pros, there's a port with the right difficulty settings for your setup.

Real-Time Miner Dashboard Every miner gets a personal dashboard at hmpool.io/miner.html. Just enter your BTC address and you can see your live hashrate, worker status, share history, estimated earnings, and payout history. No account needed, your wallet address is your identity.

Rewards Program Active miners earn points every hour based on their hashrate tier. Points accumulate monthly and unlock levels (Bronze through Diamond) with increasing bonus multipliers. Top miners get entered into monthly bonus draws. It's our way of saying thanks to the people who stick around and keep hashing.

Affiliate Program If you refer other miners, you earn a 15% bonus on the reward points they generate. Simple referral link system, no complicated setup.

Remote Stats and Custom Identity Your miner dashboard isn't just a web page. We support embeddable stats that you can drop into forum signatures, personal sites, x.com, Facebook or anywhere that renders HTML. You can also set a custom display name for your miner through the dashboard, so instead of just seeing a wallet address you can brand your workers however you want. Useful if you're running multiple rigs and want to tell them apart at a glance, or if you just want your name showing up on the pool leaderboard instead of an anonymous address. No more having to copy and paste your btc address to get your stats, with our remote widget, your mining stats are updated several times an hour to view on your phone, PC etc...

Low Minimum Payout Minimum payout is 0.0001 BTC. We're not sitting on your sats. If you've earned it, you can get it.

Connection Info

Pool: stratum+tcp://hmpool.io
Port 3337: IoT/Micro devices (Bitaxe, Nerdaxe)
Port 3335: CPU/GPU/General
Port 3334: Bitaxe/Mid-range ASICs
Port 3336: Full ASICs
Port 3338: Industrial/Large farms
Worker format: YOUR_BTC_ADDRESS.workername

We also run a DigiByte pool at digi.hmpool.io for anyone interested in mining DGB with the same hybrid payout model.

Would love to have some of you try it out. Happy to answer questions in this thread.

Website: https://hmpool.io Mining Guide: https://hmpool.io/mining-guide.html FAQ: https://hmpool.io/faq.html

[philipma1957]

its a nice idea.

at the moment you only have 77th

for the pool to have a decent shot it needs 3eh

3eh means a block a year.

good luck maybe I will point a miner at you.



if you did it for bch and had 1ph pointed to you it could be better.

I have a 60th miner point to bch pool on viabtc it has earned

0.167 BCH since February 2

that's 42 days

by day 252 I will be at 1 BCH.

the issue with a BTC solo is you could run with the coins

it will take a long time to hit a block

but BCH should hit every once in a while if we had 1ph of gear

[hashedmax]

Thanks. We've discussed adding a BCH pool eventually but we've got a lot going on right now but in due time. And as for a 3EH hash rate at one block per year, that actually works out to about 1 block every couple days, but I totally get your point. I think we're doing quite well for only a month in to this project.

Thanks for your response!

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Hybrid Payout System We run a hybrid model. When any miner on the pool finds a block, 2% goes to the pool as a fee, 10% goes directly to the miner who found it as a finder's bonus, and the remaining 88% is distributed to all active miners proportional to their shares over a 24-hour PPLNS window. So you get the thrill of solo mining with the safety net of pooled rewards. Everyone contributing hashrate gets paid when anyone hits a block.

By no stretch of the imagination is that a solo pool. It's just a modified PPLNS pool that pays a finders bonus. Not bad but not solo mining where the miner gets all or at least most of the reward.

[Nexus9090]

Just a quick question,

If mining to your pool and your pool goes for an extended period without finding a block, doesn't that devalue the payout per share?

So its not exactly PPLNS when each share has a fixed value.

I'm probably being a bit dumb and not understanding the payment model properly.

Thanks.

[hashedmax]

Hybrid Payout System We run a hybrid model. When any miner on the pool finds a block, 2% goes to the pool as a fee, 10% goes directly to the miner who found it as a finder's bonus, and the remaining 88% is distributed to all active miners proportional to their shares over a 24-hour PPLNS window. So you get the thrill of solo mining with the safety net of pooled rewards. Everyone contributing hashrate gets paid when anyone hits a block.

By no stretch of the imagination is that a solo pool. It's just a modified PPLNS pool that pays a finders bonus. Not bad but not solo mining where the miner gets all or at least most of the reward.

Thanks for responding. You're absolutely right that calling it solo pool is technically wrong, it's really a hybrid PPLNS with a finder's bonus. We used solo to emphasize that miners get the thrill of potentially hitting a block with their own shares, combined with consistent PPLNS payouts. But I appreciate the correction, hybrid pool is more technically accurate. The thing is that unlike traditional PPLNS pools, the miner who actually finds the block in our pool gets rewarded an extra 10% + their normal share, which brings some of that solo mining excitement back.

[hashedmax]

Just a quick question,

If mining to your pool and your pool goes for an extended period without finding a block, doesn't that devalue the payout per share?

So its not exactly PPLNS when each share has a fixed value.

I'm probably being a bit dumb and not understanding the payment model properly.

Thanks.

That's actually a great question and you're not being dumb at all.

Shares don't accumulate value over time. Our PPLNS window is 24 hours, so only shares submitted in the 24 hours before a block is found count toward the payout. Anything older than that has already fallen out of the window.

So if the pool goes two weeks without finding a block, shares from week one are long gone. When a block is finally found, only miners who were active in the last 24 hours get a cut. The value per share at that point depends on how many total shares are in that window, which is really just a function of how much hashrate was active.

Think of it less like shares earning a fixed rate and more like a rolling snapshot. If you're hashing when the block hits, you get your proportional cut of the reward based on what you contributed in the last 24 hours relative to everyone else. If you stopped mining three days ago, you get nothing from that block because your shares already expired.

The big picture is that long dry spells between blocks don't dilute anything. They just mean payouts happen less frequently. When one does hit, the full block reward (minus the dev fee) gets distributed to whoever was actually working.

I hope this helps better understand it.

Thanks

[philipma1957]

Just a quick question,

If mining to your pool and your pool goes for an extended period without finding a block, doesn't that devalue the payout per share?

So its not exactly PPLNS when each share has a fixed value.

I'm probably being a bit dumb and not understanding the payment model properly.

Thanks.

That's actually a great question and you're not being dumb at all.

Shares don't accumulate value over time. Our PPLNS window is 24 hours, so only shares submitted in the 24 hours before a block is found count toward the payout. Anything older than that has already fallen out of the window.

So if the pool goes two weeks without finding a block, shares from week one are long gone. When a block is finally found, only miners who were active in the last 24 hours get a cut. The value per share at that point depends on how many total shares are in that window, which is really just a function of how much hashrate was active.

Think of it less like shares earning a fixed rate and more like a rolling snapshot. If you're hashing when the block hits, you get your proportional cut of the reward based on what you contributed in the last 24 hours relative to everyone else. If you stopped mining three days ago, you get nothing from that block because your shares already expired.

The big picture is that long dry spells between blocks don't dilute anything. They just mean payouts happen less frequently. When one does hit, the full block reward (minus the dev fee) gets distributed to whoever was actually working.

I hope this helps better understand it.

Thanks

No good a 24 hour window is an issue.

You should do a week.

Pretend we are going along at 1 ph of hash for the whole pool day after day.

I guy comes in and pushes 1eh for a 1 day rental

He will grab everything because of the 24 hour time slot you use.

If you use a week he gets less since the weight average is

1ph
1ph
1ph
1ph
1ph
1ph
1001ph

So he gets 1000 the others get 7

Your way

He get 1000 the others get 1


Also i loyally mine a 100th unit with you m for a  year my hash is consistent for a year a storm comes i am  offline for 12 hours my share is cut 50%

With a 7 day average i would get 6.5/7 shares vs with a 1 day i get .5/1 shares

I  have mined for many years 2012 to 2026 I have been forced offline for at least 2 weeks time and I have been burnt more than once by 24 hours share clocks

[Nexus9090]

Just a quick question,

If mining to your pool and your pool goes for an extended period without finding a block, doesn't that devalue the payout per share?

So its not exactly PPLNS when each share has a fixed value.

I'm probably being a bit dumb and not understanding the payment model properly.

Thanks.

That's actually a great question and you're not being dumb at all.

Shares don't accumulate value over time. Our PPLNS window is 24 hours, so only shares submitted in the 24 hours before a block is found count toward the payout. Anything older than that has already fallen out of the window.

So if the pool goes two weeks without finding a block, shares from week one are long gone. When a block is finally found, only miners who were active in the last 24 hours get a cut. The value per share at that point depends on how many total shares are in that window, which is really just a function of how much hashrate was active.

Think of it less like shares earning a fixed rate and more like a rolling snapshot. If you're hashing when the block hits, you get your proportional cut of the reward based on what you contributed in the last 24 hours relative to everyone else. If you stopped mining three days ago, you get nothing from that block because your shares already expired.

The big picture is that long dry spells between blocks don't dilute anything. They just mean payouts happen less frequently. When one does hit, the full block reward (minus the dev fee) gets distributed to whoever was actually working.

I hope this helps better understand it.

Thanks

No good a 24 hour window is an issue.

You should do a week.

Pretend we are going along at 1 ph of hash for the whole pool day after day.

I guy comes in and pushes 1eh for a 1 day rental

He will grab everything because of the 24 hour time slot you use.

If you use a week he gets less since the weight average is

1ph
1ph
1ph
1ph
1ph
1ph
1001ph

So he gets 1000 the others get 7

Your way

He get 1000 the others get 1


Also i loyally mine a 100th unit with you m for a  year my hash is consistent for a year a storm comes i am  offline for 12 hours my share is cut 50%

With a 7 day average i would get 6.5/7 shares vs with a 1 day i get .5/1 shares

I  have mined for many years 2012 to 2026 I have been forced offline for at least 2 weeks time and I have been burnt more than once by 24 hours share clocks

I think this is what I was trying to describe to myself but being as it was late in the day I wasn't formulating the argument properly in my own mind.

So, thanks Philipma1957.

The payment model does seems somewhat unbalanced and risky to be honest.

The payment window should be at least a week ideally two weeks I agree.

Otherwise you get guzzumped by a larger miner who pushes a few hundred PH for a while snags a block and leaves all the smaller sub PH miners who've been pushing shares for weeks in the dust. That just doesn't seem reasonable or fair.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Or, just do what Kano does for the PPLNS side of his pool - block all rentals from it to prevent land grabs. Since it does not affect other users, rentals ARE allowed on the solo side. BTW, window on kanopool is 3 days.

For folks who own the hardware and want to point several hundred PH at the PPLNS side long term he will setup a node just for them to use.

[philipma1957]

Or, just do what Kano does for the PPLNS side of his pool - block all rentals from it to prevent land grabs. Since it does not affect other users, rentals ARE allowed on the solo side. BTW, window on kanopool is 3 days.

For folks who own the hardware and want to point several hundred PH at the PPLNS side long term he will setup a node just for them to use.

I can only point about 3ph that I have hosted

but I would hate to point 3ph for months on end and someone with 1eh points it making my months of work workless.


I have done small pool mining and there are a lot of ways to be burned by it.