How to get started


You can also find a Step By Step Mining Guide and Video on the forums.
  1. Download and install the bitcoin application
    • Once downloaded, launch the bitcoin application and wait for the block count to stop increasing in order for your client to be in sync with the network.
    • This can take a few hours, thankfully you only need to do this once on you main computer. TIP: You can open and forward port 8333 to the computer running bitcoin to increase the speed.
  2. Create an account on the BitClockers Bitcoin mining pool by visiting signup
    • Once signed up, at your dashboard type in your bitcoin address from the bitcoin application and click save.
    • Create a worker, by typing in username and password and clicking create.
    • It is not necessary to create a unique username and password for each mining client. You can put one device per worker or thousands, it is up to you.
  3. Install a bitcoin miner on your computer, we recommend Phoenix Miner for GPUs. Configure your miner to use the worker username and password you created earlier. Some of the more popular GPU and CPU miner clients are:
    • Recommended:GUIMiner - Windows GPU miner (instructions)
      Host: pool.bitclockers.com    Port: 8332    Username/Password: You created on the Dashboard
    • Advanced:Phoenix - GPU miner (instructions)
      command line: phoenix.exe -u http://WORKERNAME:WORKERPASSWORD@pool.bitclockers.com:8332/ -k poclbm DEVICE=0
    • Diablo's GPU miner (instructions)
      command line: DiabloMiner-Windows.exe -u WORKERNAME -p WORKERPASSWORD -o pool.bitclockers.com -r 8332
    • m0mchil's GPU miner (instructions)
      command line: oclbm.exe -d1 --host=pool.bitclockers.com --port=8332 --user=WORKERNAME --pass=WORKERPASSWORD

So how does it work?

The server gives members blocks to solve. Each solution found is registered as one share. We pay you for every solved block proportional to your part in the pool hashing rate.

The server notifies your bitcoin miner about new blocks with the help of long polling. This allows to minimize the number of stale shares.

There is a 8% fee used to keep this service alive. Valid shares are paid out when received, and we provide instant payout with up to 24 payments per day.