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SoapBox Pool

The SoapBox Pool is the SoapBox ecosystem's Mining pool. It lets many miners combine their hashrate and split rewards by contribution, so you earn a steady stream from your first accepted share instead of waiting to win a whole block solo. It runs more than one algorithm, and it is even mineable straight from a browser tab.

What you can mine

RandomX (CPU) — the CPU-friendly, ASIC-resistant algorithm used by Monero. It runs well on ordinary processors, which is what makes browser mining possible.
Etchash (GPU) — the GPU algorithm behind Ethereum Classic and the PRANA compute chain. Laptop-friendly; it keeps a DAG in memory.
Browser mining — start contributing hashrate from a web page, no install required, and earn from your first share.

How pooled mining works

Solo mining rarely wins on a busy chain, so a pool aggregates everyone's work. You submit shares that prove you're doing the work; the pool pays out proportionally when it finds blocks. See Mining for the underlying mechanics — hashing, difficulty, shares, and block rewards.

Point a miner at, or mine in your browser at, pool.soapbox.community.

How it fits

Mining PRANA here isn't wasted work: PRANA pairs classic proof-of-work with useful AI/GPU compute, so hashrate you contribute helps run real workloads. Learn to set up and tune a miner at the Witness School.

See also: Mining · PRANA · SoapBox · pool.soapbox.community

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