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BTCPool for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Decred, Bytom, ...

Branch	Status
master
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BTCPool is backend system of https://pool.btc.com.

This is a version of BTCPool that supports more blockchains. Check the SHA256-only version at master branch.

The pool backend support these blockchains at current:

• SHA256
  • Bitcoin
  • BitcoinCash
  • UnitedBitcoin
• Scrypt
  • Litecoin
• ETHash / Daggerhashimoto
  • Ethereum
  • Ethereum Classic
• EquiHash
  • ZCash
  • Beam

  Tips: ZCash and BEAM use different EquiHash parameters and are not compatible in mining.

• Cuckoo Cycle
  • Grin

  Tips: Grin supports Cuckaroo Cycle 29 and Cuckatoo Cycle 31 at the same time, miners can choose an algorithm to mine.

• Blake-256
  • Decred
• Tensority
  • Bytom
• Eaglesong
  • Ckb (finished but the test is not enough)

  Tips: only Tested with bminer and nbminer. need to be updated after the new version of ckb is released.

• Others
  • Siacoin (not finished and need test)

It also support these merged mining blockchains of SHA256 blockchains:

• SHA256 merged mining
  • Namecoin
  • RSK
  • ElastOS
  • Other blockchains that compatible with Bitcoin merged mining specification

If you want merged mine more than one chains that compatible with Bitcoin merged mining specification, use merged mining proxy.

Note: The project is still a testbed and work in progress, all things could be changed.

See Also:

• BTCPool's golang modules

Architecture (need update)

Install

1. Install Zookeeper, or see INSTALL-ZooKeeper.md

• https://zookeeper.apache.org/

1. Install Kafka, or see INSTALL-Kafka.md

• https://kafka.apache.org/

1. Install BTCPool, see INSTALL-BTCPool.md

Upgrade

Upgrading to BTCPool 2.3.0 requires additional operations on sharelogger, slparser and statshttpd due to incompatible sharelog format changes.

See UPGRADE-BTCPool.md for more information.

Benchmark (outdated)

We have test 100,000 miners online Benchmark. see Benchmark-100000.md

BTCAgent

BTCAgent is a kind of stratum proxy which use customize protocol to communicate with the pool. It's very efficient and designed for huge mining farm.

• AGENT.md
• BTCAgent's HomePage

Testing

You could run simulator to test the system. It will simulate a lots of miners, need to enbale config enable_simulator on your Stratum Server.

License

BTCPool is released under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.

Welcome aboard!

BTC.COM Team.