SHA256 Mining – solo merge-mining pool for Bitaxes and small miners (BTC + 7 Aux

SHA256 Mining – solo merge-mining pool for Bitaxes and small miners (BTC + 7 AuxPoW coins, non-custodial)

Website: https://sha256-mining.shears.co.uk
Stratum: stratum.shears.co.uk
Q&A forum: https://questions.shears.co.uk/qtoa/

What it is
A small, UK-based solo pool built for home miners. One miner mines Bitcoin and several merge-mined (AuxPoW) coins at once, using the same work. Every block pays directly to the finder's own address in the coinbase. The pool never holds funds.

Port 3402 – Bitcoin + merge-mined coins
Bitcoin (BTC), Unobtanium (UNO), SHA256Coin (S256), Doichain (DOI), Myriad (XMY), Bitcoin Vault (BTCV), VargaMesh (VMESH), Blockle (BLOCK)

Solo-mined coins on their own ports (34xx–36xx)
Around 20 small and revived SHA-256 coins, including Voidcoin, Smileycoin, Auroracoin, Titcoin, Cascoin, Digitalcoin and more. The full list, live difficulty and the 7-day chance for a 1.2 TH/s miner are on the website.

Plans
- Free: Bitcoin only, 2% fee on BTC blocks
- All coins: £10 per year, 0% fee on every coin
- Up to 10 TH/s per account, to keep it fair for small miners

How to connect
URL: stratum.shears.co.uk
Port: 3402 (or a coin's own port)
User: your BTC address, optionally .workername
Password: x

Notes
- Solo mining: blocks are found by luck, and the finder keeps the whole reward
- Tested with Bitaxe Gamma / BM1370 on ESP-Miner 2.14
- It's early days. Bug reports and feedback are very welcome in this thread or on the Q&A forum

Coin devs: if you'd like your AuxPoW or SHA-256 coin added, post here or on the forum.