Mine BC3 on your own hardware.
Keep the entire block reward.
bc3.online pays out inside the block you find — the subsidy goes to your address in the coinbase transaction itself and never passes through the pool's wallet. Our only revenue is the block's transaction fees.
Live blocks
Live from nodeOver time — PPLNS and solo separately, bars show best share, marks show found blocks
View your stats
Hashrate, rigs, found blocks and payouts for your wallet — solo and PPLNS.
Best share
The closest we have come to a block — 100% of target wins it.
If we win this block
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our entire revenue — 0 % of the subsidy
No blocks found yet — every block the pool finds will be listed here.
Choose your mode
Steady payouts for steady work
PPLNS (Pay Per Last N Shares) splits each found block's subsidy between everyone who contributed shares in the recent window, proportional to work. The right choice when your hashrate is small relative to the network.
Paid inside the coinbase
When a block is found, the distribution is written directly into the coinbase transaction — one output per participant. No balances held by us, nothing to withdraw. Spendable after 100 blocks maturity.
The window
Your shares are difficulty-weighted over a rolling window of 2× the network difficulty. Payouts below 0.0001 BC3 are folded into the window's largest participant instead of creating dust.
Username is your BC3 address, optionally with a rig name: yourBC3address.rigname — password is ignored. Already running your own miner? Point it at the endpoints above, and see the stratum details for ports, vardiff and how to set your own difficulty.
The fee model: 0% of your reward
You get the subsidy
The full block subsidy is paid to your address (or the PPLNS window) as the first outputs of the coinbase transaction. Trustless — we cannot withhold it even if we wanted to.
We get the transaction fees
The pool's revenue is the fees from the block's transactions — close to zero on the young BC3 network today. We are betting on the network growing.
100 blocks maturity
As in Bitcoin, coinbase rewards become spendable after 100 blocks (~17 hours). That is a consensus rule that applies to every pool — nobody can pay out faster.
What is BC3?
A Bitcoin relaunch with its own proof of work
BC3 (BitcoinIII) is built on BitcoinIII Core v31.1, a fork of Bitcoin Core. It keeps Bitcoin's design — including the 21,000,000 coin maximum supply — and changes how blocks are mined. The first blocks used Bitcoin's SHA-256d; a hard fork at height 30,240 switched to SHA3-256t (little-endian) over the 80-byte block header, and a second hard fork at height 64,360 switches to BC3Hash. Each block's version bits say which one applies: bit 11 for BC3Hash, bit 12 for SHA3-256t, neither for SHA-256d.
The same fork at 64,360 replaces Bitcoin's 2,016-block retarget with ASERT: difficulty adjusts after every block, toward one block per 10 minutes on a fixed schedule, halving for every two days the chain falls behind it and doubling for every two days ahead.
What BC3Hash is
SHA3-256t kept BC3 away from Bitcoin's SHA-256d ASICs, but SHA3 itself is cheap to put in silicon. BC3Hash hashes the block header with six functions — SHA3-384, SHA3-512, SHA-512, RIPEMD-160, BLAKE2s and BLAKE2b — runs the SHA3-512 result through BC3Mix, and finishes with a domain-tagged SHA3-256 over all six. BC3Mix is the deliberately heavy part: secp256k1 scalar multiplications from tables, fixed-exponent modular exponentiations and field inversions.
One BC3Hash costs roughly 800 times as much as a SHA3-256t hash, and the work is big-integer arithmetic of the kind GPUs and CPUs already do well. SHA3 FPGA and ASIC designs do not carry over; dedicated hardware for BC3Hash would have to be built from scratch.
The whitepaper, source code and community links live on the official site: bc3.network.
Get started in five minutes
- Get a BC3 address. Create a wallet right here in your browser — your keys are generated in the tab and never sent anywhere. Or run BitcoinIII Core v31.1 if you prefer a full node — older versions do not follow the chain past block 64,360.
- Download the miner from releases and unzip. Verify the SHA256 checksum against the release notes. You need version 2.0.0 or later: it mines SHA3-256t until block 64,360 and switches to BC3Hash by itself at the fork, without a restart. Older versions cannot mine after the fork.
- Start it and pick a mode. Paste your address, name your rig, choose PPLNS (steady payouts) or solo (the whole block or nothing).
- Mine. The client shows your hashrate, shares, and — in solo mode — estimated time to block.
No GPU of your own? The same miner runs as a Docker image on rented hardware — mining on rented GPUs covers clore.ai, Vast.ai and RunPod.
What would you earn?
Solo and PPLNS earn the same amount on average — the pool takes 0% of the subsidy either way. What differs is the shape: solo pays the whole block at once and nothing in between, PPLNS pays a steady share of every block the pool finds. The figures above are the long-run average; over any short period you may get much more or much less.