Mining

Mining Guide

Set up HOBC solo mining for home miners, ASICs, and tiny SHA256 devices.

Algorithm and mining style

HobbyHash Coin uses SHA256 mining. The site is built around home miners, hobby miners, solo miners, small mining setups, and simple pool configuration.

Solo mining means a miner is trying to find a real block. Accepted shares prove your miner is working, but they are not the same thing as finding a block.

Nano miners and small SHA256 devices

Small miners can use the Nano Pool when they need very low share difficulty to show activity. This is useful for nano miner setups, Bitaxe-style devices, NerdMiner-style hobby miners, USB test miners, and other low-hashrate SHA256 hardware.

Use the Nano Pool at <code>stratum+tcp://pool.hobbyhashcoin.com:5556</code> with a worker name like <code>HOBC_ADDRESS.nano1</code>. The pool is still solo only, so accepted shares show valid work but do not guarantee a payout.

Confirmed pool URLs

Main Poolstratum+tcp://pool.hobbyhashcoin.com:5555

Nano Poolstratum+tcp://pool.hobbyhashcoin.com:5556

These ports are present in the current website and pool API configuration. Do not use unconfirmed pool ports from random posts or screenshots.

Worker format

Use this format:

HOBC_ADDRESS.WORKERNAME

Password can usually be:

Main Pool vs Nano Pool

Main Pool: intended for normal SHA256 ASIC miners and higher-hashrate devices. Current site text lists start difficulty as 5000.
Nano Pool: intended for very small miners, test miners, and low-hashrate SHA256 devices. Current site text lists start difficulty as 0.005.
Low difficulty helps tiny miners submit shares more often so the dashboard can show activity.
Higher difficulty reduces share spam for stronger miners.

Shares and difficulty

Accepted share: the pool accepted submitted work from your miner.
Rejected share: the pool rejected submitted work. Causes include stale work, wrong settings, bad address format, latency, or miner firmware issues.
Stale share: work submitted too late, usually after the pool has moved to newer work.
Best difficulty: the highest-difficulty share seen from a miner or pool over a period.
Network difficulty: the chain target a share must meet or beat to become a real block.

Blocks and payouts

A big share only wins a block if it meets or beats the current network difficulty target. Shares below network difficulty are useful progress signals, but they are not blocks.

Current site copy says pool payouts go to the HOBC address before the dot in the worker name. Use YOUR_HOBC_ADDRESS.worker1 or YOUR_HOBC_ADDRESS.nano1 — always include a dot and a worker suffix, not the address alone.

When your miner finds a solo block, the HOBC reward pays automatically to the address before the dot after the coinbase reaches 100 on-chain confirmations. Until then the block may show as waiting for maturity. That wait is normal coinbase maturity, not a manual pool hold.

The Workers count on pool status includes every miner with recent accepted shares in the active session window, not only live stratum socket connections.

Mining is not guaranteed income. Payouts depend on finding a real block under current pool rules.