No install, no wallet, no risk. Press start and your device begins doing real proof-of-work — the same computation that secures the network — while a live console shows you exactly what's happening. The best way to understand mining is to watch your own machine do it.
STATUS: learning mode — real keccak-256 hashing benchmark. Live testnet mining (shares + blocks for idle time) is being wired to the pool next. Nothing here mints or moves real value.
Mining is a global guessing game with a prize. Here's the whole thing, honestly:
The network has a pile of pending transactions bundled into a candidate block. Everyone's trying to "seal" it.
You add a random number (a "nonce") and run the block through a one-way hash function — a mathematical blender that returns a fixed-size fingerprint.
If that fingerprint is smaller than the network's target, you win the block. If not — and it almost never is — you change the nonce and guess again. Millions of times a second.
Whoever finds a winning guess first broadcasts the sealed block, earns the reward, and everyone builds on top. Then it starts over.
That's proof-of-work: security by spent effort. Rewriting history would mean re-doing all that work faster than the entire honest network combined — which is why it's hard to cheat. When you press start above, your device is doing exactly step 2 and 3, for real.
Bitcoin's hash is pure math, so specialized chips (ASICs) crush ordinary machines. MetalDAG deliberately leans on memory bandwidth instead — the one thing a normal GPU already has plenty of. That keeps mining on hardware people own.
Because there's no giant advantage to build a chip for, there's no manufacturer chokepoint. A laptop, a Mac, a phone, a gaming rig — all can meaningfully take part. Which is the whole point.
MetalDAG was designed for the wide, fast memory of Apple Silicon — so a Mac you already own is a genuinely good miner, not an afterthought.
You're running a slice of it right now with zero setup. It's slower than a native miner — the full dataset can't fit in a tab — but it's the easiest on-ramp that exists, and thousands of browsers pooled together add up.
Every tier mines the same chain and enforces the same rules. Pick where you start — there's no gatekeeper at any level.
This page. Any device, any OS, zero install. Learn, contribute idle time, feel it work.
you are hereThe native Mac Metal Miner (CLI + GUI). Real hashrate on Apple Silicon you already own, silent and efficient.
Linux / Windows with NVIDIA or AMD (miner port in progress). Maximum hashrate for the committed.
Browser mining has a shady history — websites secretly using visitors' machines. Xcoin's rule, written into its Constitution, is the opposite: consensual and transparent, always.
When live testnet mining turns on, rewards are paid to an address you control — never to us, never to a hidden default. You keep the keys. Make one in a minute with the open-source wallet:
The wallet is post-quantum and self-custodial — one seed is your entire backup, it signs offline, and it never sends your seed to any node. Full docs: github.com/xCoin-Wallet/CLI.
Same chain, same rules — pick your style. Both pay to your own address.
Point your miner straight at a node. Find a block, keep the entire reward. Rare and high-variance — but you answer to no pool, and you choose your own transactions. Solo mining is itself a decentralization win.
Combine your hashpower with everyone else's and get steady payouts proportional to the work you contributed — even a browser's small share counts. Smoother rewards, more fun with a crew.
Run it on a call, compare hashrates, teach a newbie their first block, point a room full of idle laptops at the same network. Mining is more fun together — and a distributed crowd is exactly what makes the network strong.