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Getting started
Connect a miner and start earning QTC.
How to Mine Qubitcoin Step-by-step: pick a server, set your addresses and copy a ready-to-run mining command. About the pool Why mine Qubitcoin with HeroMiners: fees, payouts, regions and features at a glance.
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How to start mining Qubitcoin (QTC) Start mining Qubitcoin with one GPU: get a wallet, pick a qhash miner, choose the closest server and see your first shares on HeroMiners. How to choose your server region Why the closest server region wins, what latency really changes in mining, how to set a backup, and what to do when your ISP or country blocks mining. Why your pool hashrate differs from your miner Your miner console shows one hashrate and the pool dashboard another. What each number measures, why they differ, and when a gap is a real problem. Setting up a Qubitcoin wallet Create a Qubitcoin wallet with the official node, recognise a valid bc1, 1 or 3 address, avoid Bitcoin-only wallets and keep your backup safe. How to choose a Qubitcoin mining pool The fees, payout terms and qualities worth comparing between Qubitcoin mining pools, with our own verifiable answers to hold against any other pool. How to read your mining dashboard A tour of your miner dashboard: what the hashrate figures, workers, balances, blocks, payments and Live tab each tell you about your mining. Why we show stale shares What a stale share costs you, why some pools hide it, how this pool reports it openly, and what your stale percentage says about your setup.
Common questions
One flat fee on the blocks the pool shares out and one on the blocks a solo miner keeps. Both current figures are shown live on the pool statistics; they are deducted automatically from rewards, and there are no other charges.
Automatically every hour, as soon as your confirmed balance passes the minimum payout. Payments are non-custodial and go straight to your own Qubitcoin (bc1…, 1… or 3…) wallet.
No. There is no account and no KYC. Your Qubitcoin wallet address is your login, and you keep full control of your coins the whole time.
Yes. Add the solo prefix to your address to mine for whole blocks instead of shared rewards. Solo has a fee of its own, shown live on the pool statistics beside the pool fee.
The connect guide auto-selects the lowest-latency region for you, with a dedicated route for ISP-blocked countries.
A recent NVIDIA, AMD or Intel graphics card.
Qubitcoin
The coin, its quantum-circuit hash and how it is mined.
About Qubitcoin (QTC) What Qubitcoin is, its quantum-circuit hash, specs, emission and market links.
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qhash hashes the block header with SHA-256, uses that result to set the angles of a simulated 16-qubit circuit, and hashes the first hash together with the circuit's measured output with SHA-256 again. The pool sends your miner a job, your GPU searches for nonces, and every result that meets your share difficulty is submitted as a share and checked before it counts. The network aims for a block every 10 minutes.
A recent NVIDIA, AMD or Intel graphics card. The GPU benchmarks on the About Qubitcoin page rank the cards measured on qhash by hashrate and by efficiency.
Qubitcoin uses Bitcoin's address formats: bech32 addresses starting with bc1q, Taproot addresses starting with bc1p, and legacy addresses starting with 1 or 3. The pool checks your address at login and tells you if it is not a valid Qubitcoin address.
It has the same format, so a Bitcoin address is also a valid Qubitcoin address. Only mine to an address whose wallet you control on the Qubitcoin network: QTC sent to an exchange's Bitcoin deposit address is not credited to you.
Each block pays a subsidy plus the transaction fees in that block. The subsidy started at 50 QTC and halves every 210,000 blocks, about every four years, toward a maximum supply of 21 million QTC, the same schedule as Bitcoin. There is no developer fee on the reward.
The same port, 1195, serves both. Use stratum+tcp:// for a plain connection or stratum+ssl:// for an encrypted one.
Yes, prefix your wallet address with "solo:" when connecting. In solo mode you receive the full block reward (minus the solo fee) for blocks you find yourself, but with much higher variance than pool mining.
Payouts and profitability
Fees, payouts and what your hardware earns.
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Pool fee and payouts explained What the pool charges, when hourly payouts run, and how a found block moves from Immature to Pending Balance and then into your own wallet. Shares, difficulty and effort explained The three numbers behind every mining dashboard: what a share proves, what share difficulty tunes, what effort says about luck, and what an orphan is. Pool luck and orphan blocks explained What block effort and pool luck really mean, why an unlucky streak is normal variance, what an orphaned block costs, and why daily counts use UTC. PPS vs PPLNS vs PROP: payout schemes explained PPS, PPLNS and PROP explained in plain English: what each scheme pays, who carries the luck, and how PPS+ works on this pool. Why am I not paid for every block? Two blocks found seconds apart can pay you nothing. Learn why that happens under PROP, why it evens out, and how PPLNS and PPS+ pay the same work. Do stale shares get paid? No, on any pool and under any reward scheme. Why late work cannot pay, how stale differs from rejected, and how to keep your stale rate under 1 percent. How to sell or trade your mined coins The safe path from coins in your wallet to money: picking an exchange, depositing with a test send, trading, withdrawing and keeping records. Mining and tax: what to record, and why that is hard Mining income is usually taxed at two moments. Learn what each one is, why hourly payouts make records hard, and exactly what to keep. Choosing your payout threshold: the arithmetic What your payout threshold controls, why batched payouts make fees smaller than you think, and how to pick a threshold from your own payments page. How the minimum payout works Learn the two minimums a payout waits for, how a BTC or XMR minimum becomes an amount in the coin you mine at today's price, and why it moves. Auto coin switching: when it pays and when it costs you What a profit switcher really compares, the three costs it leaves out, and why the pool reward scheme decides whether switching is cheap or expensive. Electricity prices by country, and what they do to a rig Household power costs from about 5 to over 40 cents a kWh. Learn why one card profits in one country and loses in another, and how to find your real price. Where mining is allowed, and how the income is treated Most countries neither welcome nor ban mining: they tax it, license it or make banking hard. The three states a country can be in, and how income is taxed. Hashprice: what your hashrate is worth, in one number What one unit of hashrate earns per day, how the figure is built, why it moves when you change nothing, and why it is revenue rather than profit. Hashrate marketplace vs mining pool: which one pays you A pool pays you in outcomes and a marketplace pays you a rate. How each one pays, what it costs, what the price follows, and which one suits you.
Common questions
We take your hash rate as a share of the whole network, multiply by the blocks found per day and the reward, then take off the pool fee and, if you enter them, your power cost and miner-software fee. That gives your estimated earnings per day, week, month and year. Change any field and it updates at once.
No. Add each graphics card you run and set how many of each, mixing different models freely, and the calculator sums the total hash rate and power from our qhash benchmarks. You can still edit the totals to match your own overclock or undervolt.
It is the power price where your earnings exactly cover your power bill. Pay less than that per kWh and you mine at a profit; pay more and you mine at a loss. It is the quickest way to tell if a rig is worth running.
These are estimates, not a promise. Your real payout depends on the pool's luck, your average (not peak) hash rate, and the difficulty, which all move over time. QTC and BTC price swings change the totals too. Use it to plan, not as a guarantee.
Solo mining
Whole blocks, high variance: how solo works here.
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Pool vs solo mining: which should you pick? Pool mining pays small, steady amounts under PROP or PPS+; solo mining pays whole blocks, rarely. How each pays, and how to choose and switch. Solo mining on the pool: a complete guide How to mine Qubitcoin solo with one address prefix, keep whole blocks minus the solo fee, read your odds, and decide if solo suits your rig.
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When you find a block, you keep the whole reward instead of sharing it with the pool (minus a small solo fee). The catch is luck: you might hit a few blocks in a good week, or none for a long time.
It depends on your hash rate against the whole network. The headline shows the median, the point where you have a 50% chance of a block by then, and the average gap between blocks. Because it is random, long dry spells followed by a sudden win are normal.
There are 100 dots and each filled dot is 1% of your chance of finding at least one block in the selected time. 37 filled dots means a 37% chance. It is a picture of your odds, not a countdown.
Solo fits big rigs and miners who can wait a long time for the chance of a full block. Want steady, predictable payouts? Normal pool mining is usually better, small rewards paid often for your work. Check your odds here first.
Software and troubleshooting
Miner setup on Windows and HiveOS, and fixing common problems.
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Worker offline: a troubleshooting checklist Your dashboard or an alert says a worker went offline. Work through this checklist, from the most common cause at the rig to the rarest network issue. How to find your worker IP address Payout settings changes are checked against your worker IP. Learn which public IP the pool means and how to find it on any system or farm. Mining Qubitcoin on Windows Mine Qubitcoin on Windows: pick a qhash miner for your NVIDIA, AMD or Intel GPU, download it safely, create a start file and check it works. Mining Qubitcoin on HiveOS Run Qubitcoin on HiveOS as a custom miner: the wallet, pool URL and miner values your flight sheet needs, and how to check your worker is mining. SRBMiner-Multi setup for Qubitcoin Set up SRBMiner-Multi for Qubitcoin: the qhash version and dev fee, the Windows and Linux command lines, TLS on port 1195 and healthy output. How pool notifications work Get alerts on Telegram, Discord, ntfy or web push for blocks, payouts, offline workers and hashrate drops, and learn what is stored. No account needed. How to set up mining notifications Which events the pool can alert you about, how Telegram, Discord, ntfy and browser push differ, and which channel suits the way you mine. How to set up Telegram mining notifications Link Telegram to your mining wallet: copy the verify command from your dashboard, send it to the bot, choose your events and use the chat commands. How to set up Discord mining notifications Link Discord to your mining wallet: copy the verify command from your dashboard, send it to the bot, choose your events and use the chat commands. How to set up ntfy mining notifications Get phone alerts with no account: install ntfy, subscribe to the private topic your dashboard shows, and choose which mining events alert you. How to set up browser push mining notifications Turn on browser push alerts for the wallet you mine with, learn why each browser and device is linked on its own, and choose the events that alert you. How to install the pool as an app on your phone Add the pool to your phone home screen so it opens like an app, step by step on iPhone and Android, and turn on push alerts once it is installed. Getting started with the pool API Read live pool and per-miner stats from the public JSON API: the two endpoints, how to query your own address, and how often to poll. What is a stale share? What a stale share is, why a small number is normal on every pool, and the region, connection and tuning checks that bring the rate down. Share reject reasons: what the pool told your miner Each numbered reply the pool sends when it declines a share, what it really means, and which ones point at something in your own setup you can fix. How to fix rejected shares What a rejected share means, how it differs from a stale share, and a step-by-step checklist that fixes the most common causes. Vardiff and static share difficulty How vardiff tunes your share difficulty, why it never changes your earnings, when to pin a static value, and the share difficulty on each HeroMiners pool. BAT files for mining, explained What a miner start script (.bat or .sh) is, the parts of the command every miner shares, and how to edit the file safely on Windows and Linux. How to get your miner's logs Where miner logs live, how to turn on file logging, how to find the first error yourself, and what to send when you ask for help with a rig. Watchdogs: keeping rigs mining unattended How to keep a rig mining by itself: the miner, script, driver and hardware watchdogs that restart a crashed miner or frozen rig, and how to check them. The miner settings that actually matter The five settings every miner shares: algorithm, pool, wallet, TLS and tuning. Learn what each does and how to tune one change at a time. Changing DNS for mining connectivity Why a DNS problem stops a miner connecting, which public DNS servers to use, where to change them on a PC, router or rig, and how to test the fix. Set up an SSL mining proxy Send every rig through one server you control: what an SSL mining proxy is, when to use one, how to set it up, and why it clears the shared worker warning. Finding the local IP of a rig How to find a rig's local IP from the router, from Windows, Linux or a mining OS, and how to keep that address the same after a reboot. Why antivirus flags miners, and what to do Why antivirus flags mining software, where to download a miner safely, and how to exclude a miner you chose to run without opening a big hole. Mining over LTE and mobile internet Is mobile internet good enough for mining? Why latency and stability matter more than bandwidth, and how to set up a stable LTE rig site. Qubitcoin miners: an overview The miners that support qhash for Qubitcoin, their GPUs and dev fees, why a current release matters, and how to pick and download one safely.
Hardware
The best GPUs, CPUs and ASICs, ranked by payback.
Best GPUs for mining Every graphics card ranked by the most profitable coin it can mine. Best CPUs for mining Processors ranked by mining income and payback time. Best ASICs for mining ASIC machines ranked by income and payback time.
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GPU vs CPU vs ASIC mining How CPUs, GPUs and ASICs differ as mining hardware: what each one is good at, where each falls short, and which coins suit which of them. GPU tuning for mining: a safe starting point How undervolting and careful clock tuning cut GPU power and heat without losing hashrate, and how to tune in small steps while staying stable. Is crypto mining profitable? How to tell whether mining pays for you: earnings, fees, electricity, difficulty and coin price, and how to check it all in the mining calculator. Renting rigs on MiningRigRentals How MiningRigRentals differs from NiceHash, how to check whether your coin is rentable, how to point a rented rig at this pool, and if it pays. ReBAR, Above 4G Decoding and CSM What Above 4G Decoding, Resizable BAR and CSM do, when they matter for a mining rig, how to set them safely, and how to check the gain. Powering a rig: connectors, risers and the wall circuit What each power connector can carry, why a SATA-powered riser is the classic rig fire, and how much one wall circuit can safely run all day. Buying a used card that has been mining What mining really wears out on a GPU, why a mined card can beat a gamed one, what to ask the seller, and the tests that separate a bargain from a problem. Undervolting: why running slower usually earns more Why lower power costs less work than it saves, how to find your own best setting step by step, and why work per watt matters more than hashrate. Heat, noise and dust: running a rig where you live Why a rig heats a room by its full wall draw, why no fan beats warm intake air, and how to handle noise, dust and damp when mining at home. A card stopped working: check this before calling it dead Swap parts in an order that leaves the fault one place to hide, learn what common symptoms mean, and handle a return if the card really is dead. Hardware prices by country, and what they do to payback How duty, tax, freight and exchange rates turn one list price into your real card cost, and how to enter that cost so payback figures are yours.
Pool policies
The rules of the pool and how your data is handled.
Terms of Service The rules for using the pool: fees, payouts, responsibilities and limits. Privacy Policy What the pool collects, how it is used, and the choices you have.
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Is pool mining safe? Whether pool mining is safe: why the pool cannot lose your coins, what data it holds, how every share is verified, and what you must protect. How long does the pool keep your coins? How long the pool holds your coins: why a balance exists, when it pays out each hour, and what happens to a balance below the minimum payout. Block withholding: the attack no single share reveals A miner sends real shares and hides the one that would have been a block. Learn what it costs, who pays, why anyone does it and how it is caught.
Crypto mining basics
Plain-English explainers of the core mining concepts.
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What is crypto mining? A plain-English guide to how mining secures a blockchain, why it pays you in coins, where new coins come from, and how Qubitcoin's useful work fits in. What is a mining pool? What a mining pool does, why miners join one instead of mining alone, what it costs, and how it turns your shares into steady payouts. What is hashrate? What hashrate measures, the units it is shown in, why your miner and the pool report different numbers, and what lowers your effective rate. What is network difficulty? What network difficulty is, why it keeps moving, how it changes your share of the rewards, and how it differs from the share difficulty of your rig. What is a block reward? What you earn when a block is found: the subsidy and the fees, how Qubitcoin's emission shrinks over time, and how the reward reaches your balance. Proof of work vs proof of stake How proof of work and proof of stake secure a blockchain in different ways, what each one costs, and why only proof-of-work coins can be mined. What is a crypto wallet? What a crypto wallet really holds, how an address differs from a private key, how to get one for mining, and how to keep your payouts safe. How to create a Quai (QUAI) wallet Create a Quai (QUAI) wallet step by step: install Pelagus, set a password, back up your 12-word recovery phrase and copy the QUAI address a pool pays. Pool mining security A security checklist for pool miners: protect your wallet and recovery phrase, check every address, and lock down your system, browser and network. Can you mine crypto on a phone? What mining on a phone really earns, why a phone cannot compete with a GPU, what the phone mining apps actually are, and what to do instead. Cryptojacking: when a machine mines for somebody else How mining malware gets in, why a rig owner is both the best placed and the easiest to fool, and how to check and clean a machine properly. What is inside a block: header, height, size and subsidy A block is a small fixed header plus a body of transactions. Learn the six header fields, what mining hashes, and what height and size mean. Hard fork vs soft fork, and what each one does to a miner Hard and soft forks differ in one way: does software that has not upgraded still accept the new blocks? See what each kind means for miners and payouts.
Glossary
Every mining and crypto term, defined A to Z.
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