One line on any Linux box with an NVIDIA GPU (Pascal through Blackwell). Replace the address with your own btx1z…:
curl -fsSL https://minebtx.com/install.sh | bash -s -- --address 'btx1z…YOUR_BTX_ADDRESS…'
The installer auto-detects your GPU, downloads + SHA256-verifies the patched solver binary, writes a tuned config, and runs a hard CUDA-engagement smoke test before declaring success. Source: github.com/dexbtx/minebtx. Don't have an address yet? See the setup guide for the wallet step.
BTX is a post-quantum hard fork of Bitcoin Knots. It replaces SHA-256 proof-of-work with a deterministic matrix-multiplication kernel that runs on commodity CPUs and consumer GPUs, and replaces ECDSA signatures with post-quantum primitives.
- 90-second target block time, ASERT difficulty adjustment per block.
- 21 million coin cap, 20 BTX block subsidy, first halving at block 525,000 (~July 2027).
- Shielded transactions built in. BTX includes Zcash-style zk-shielded outputs — coins can be moved into a shielded pool where amounts, senders, and receivers are encrypted on-chain.
- No exchange listings yet. BTX currently trades peer-to-peer and OTC. A deterministic price model lives at btxprice.com.
- No premine, no founder allocation, no ICO. Every coin in circulation has been mined.
No daemon to run
We run btxd 24/7 on a server tuned for the BTX matmul kernel and peer graph. You point a stratum miner at the pool — there's no node software, no wallet daemon, and no btx.conf on your machine.
No chain to sync
Initial block download on BTX takes hours of CPU time and pulls down ~GBs of headers, block bodies, and chainstate before you can mine a single share. We've already done it. Your miner is producing shares within seconds of launch.
No peers to maintain
BTX is a young network. Finding healthy peers, watching for stalls, recovering from reorgs, and avoiding tip-gap orphans is a real ops job. We do that — including a custom block-forwarder that pushes newly-found blocks ahead of the gossip cadence — so your hashrate goes to good blocks.
Open source & transparent
The pool server, miner client, and tooling are all open source at github.com/dexbtx. Live stats are public; full JSON at /stats. The treasury address is published — verify the fee balance on-chain any time.