Which mining pools are supported?

All mining pools that follow the stratum protocol specifications are supported. Please ensure the pool you selected can handle the massive hashrate and loads of shares, especially from a single connection. Due to obsolete software or weak hardware, some pools can't handle it. Most popular and well-rated pools don't have such issues, but you should consider this. Also, some pools will ban you or threaten a massive hashrate and loads of shares as a DDoS attack - that's also something to consider.

Please keep in mind:

• Dead pools are usually the result of unstable pools that frequently drop connections; try to avoid them and use other pools.
• There are some restrictions to avoid various attacks and fake pools: pool diff for SHA256ASICBOOST and SCRYPT must be at least 8, and xnonce2 size 4 or more; only some explicit and exotic pools use values that are incompatible with those settings, so this limitation shouldn't impact the vast majority of pools.
• The order takes up to 30 seconds to appear live; please be patient when submitting orders.

You can use our Pool Verifier tool to verify the pool's compatibility before you submit your order.

When you submit your order, please keep an eye on it. You're probably fine if everything goes well after 15-30 minutes. However, if you're seeing your order as Dead or swapping between Dead/Alive, or if the hashrate observed at your pool isn't as high as it is supposed to be, you should probably choose another pool.

You cannot buy hashrate for mining on NiceHash stratum servers.