What is BitMinter?

BitMinter aims to make the minting of bitcoins easy and accessible for everyone. BitMinter is a "mining pool" where the efforts of all active members are put together to make bitcoins faster. Mining alone, even with a powerful GPU (graphics card), can take a long time without seeing any bitcoins.

Merged mining: Through a technique called merged mining we are now making namecoins in addition to bitcoins, with no additional effort. You can read more about namecoins at dot-bit.org.

Note: Your computer's central processor (CPU) is slow. A good graphics card (GPU) is recommended. Have a look at our test page if you want to check that everything works on your computer without registering first.

 

Getting Started

Getting started making your first bitcoins is as easy as...

  1. (Optional) Install the bitcoin program from bitcoin.org - it works like a digital wallet
  2. Register for an account at BitMinter
  3. Hit the start button to start the BitMinter client ("miner"). Works on Windows, Linux and Mac. Requires updated Java and graphics drivers.
 

Current Terms

Whenever we are successful in making a batch of bitcoins, they are split between the users who were actively working recently.

  • PPLNS with shifts: Work is split in shifts. Minted bitcoins are split proportional to your share of work in the last 10 shifts.

If you want to use a different miner: connect it to mint.bitminter.com:8332 and as login use your username and machinename separated by an underscore, e.g. "myname_mymachine". If port 8332 is problematic for you, you can use port 80 instead.