• Supports clusters of pools each running individual currencies
• Ultra-low-latency, multi-threaded Stratum implementation using asynchronous I/O
• Adaptive share difficulty ("vardiff")
• PoW validation (hashing) using native code for maximum performance
• Session management for purging DDoS/flood initiated zombie workers
• Payment processing
• Banning System for banning peers that are flooding with invalid shares
• Live Stats API on Port 4000
• POW (proof-of-work) & POS (proof-of-stake) support
• Detailed per-pool logging to console & filesystem
• Runs on Linux and Windows

Refer to this file for a complete list.

Miningcore implements the Ethereum stratum mining protocol authored by NiceHash. This protocol is implemented by all major Ethereum miners.

• Claymore Miner must be configured to communicate using this protocol by supplying the -esm 3 command line option
• Genoil's ethminer must be configured to communicate using this protocol by supplying the -SP 2 command line option

• Pools needs to be configured with both a t-addr and z-addr (new configuration property "z-address" of the pool configuration element)
• First configured zcashd daemon needs to control both the t-addr and the z-addr (have the private key)
• To increase the share processing throughput it is advisable to increase the maximum number of concurrent equihash solvers through the new configuration property "equihashMaxThreads" of the cluster configuration element. Increasing this value by one increases the peak memory consumption of the pool cluster by 1 GB.
• Miners may use both t-addresses and z-addresses when connecting to the pool

This software comes with a built-in donation of 0.1% per block-reward to support the ongoing development of this project. You can also send donations directly to the following accounts:

• BTC: 17QnVor1B6oK1rWnVVBrdX9gFzVkZZbhDm
• LTC: LTK6CWastkmBzGxgQhTTtCUjkjDA14kxzC
• DOGE: DGDuKRhBewGP1kbUz4hszNd2p6dDzWYy9Q
• ETH: 0xcb55abBfe361B12323eb952110cE33d5F28BeeE1
• ETC: 0xF8cCE9CE143C68d3d4A7e6bf47006f21Cfcf93c0
• DASH: XqpBAV9QCaoLnz42uF5frSSfrJTrqHoxjp
• ZEC: t1YHZHz2DGVMJiggD2P4fBQ2TAPgtLSUwZ7
• BTG: GQb77ZuMCyJGZFyxpzqNfm7GB1rQreP4n6
• XMR: 475YVJbPHPedudkhrcNp1wDcLMTGYusGPF5fqE7XjnragVLPdqbCHBdZg3dF4dN9hXMjjvGbykS6a77dTAQvGrpiQqHp2eH

• .Net Core 2.1 Runtime
• PostgreSQL Database
• Coin Daemon (per pool)

• .Net Core 2.1 SDK
• PostgreSQL Database
• Coin Daemon (per pool)
• Miningcore needs to be built from source on Linux. Refer to the section further down below for instructions.

• Download miningcore-win-x64.zip from the latest Release
• Extract the Archive
• Setup the database as outlined below
• Create a configuration file config.json as described here
• Run dotnet Miningcore.dll -c config.json

Create the database:

$ createuser miningcore
$ createdb miningcore
$ psql (enter the password for postgres)

Run the query after login:

alter user miningcore with encrypted password 'some-secure-password';
grant all privileges on database miningcore to miningcore;

Import the database schema:

$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coinfoundry/miningcore/master/src/Miningcore/Persistence/Postgres/Scripts/createdb.sql
$ psql -d miningcore -U miningcore -f createdb.sql

$ wget -q https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/16.04/packages-microsoft-prod.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
$ sudo apt-get update -y
$ sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https -y
$ sudo apt-get update -y
$ sudo apt-get -y install dotnet-sdk-2.1 git cmake build-essential libssl-dev pkg-config libboost-all-dev libsodium-dev libzmq5
$ git clone https://github.com/coinfoundry/miningcore
$ cd miningcore/src/Miningcore
$ dotnet publish -c Release --framework netcoreapp2.1  -o ../../build

Download and install the .Net Core 2.1 SDK

> git clone https://github.com/coinfoundry/miningcore
> cd miningcore/src/Miningcore
> dotnet publish -c Release --framework netcoreapp2.1  -o ..\..\build

• Download and install the .Net Core 2.1 SDK
• Install Visual Studio 2017. Visual Studio Community Edition is fine.
• Open Miningcore.sln in VS 2017

Create a configuration file config.json as described here

cd ../../build
dotnet Miningcore.dll -c config.json

A public production pool requires a web-frontend for your users to check their hashrate, earnings etc. Miningcore does not include such frontend but there are several community projects that can be used as starting point.