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.
Paste an address to mine to the pool for real. Leave it blank to just try it (learn mode, no rewards). Get an address →
Solo: mine for yourself — find a block, keep the entire 50 XAT. Rare and high-variance, but you answer to no one.
STATUS: browser pool mining is LIVE on testnet — real MetalDAG shares to pool.xcoinminer.com, 0% fee, rewards to your address. Leave the address blank for the learning benchmark. 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.
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.
Flip the switch on the rig above. Same chain, same rules — pick your style. Both pay to your own address, both take 0% fee.
Find a block, keep the entire reward. Rare and high-variance — but you answer to no pool, and it's a genuine decentralization win.
Combine your hashpower with everyone else's so a browser's small share still counts. Steady payouts proportional to the work you contribute are rolling out — until then, every miner keeps the blocks they find. Same 0% fee, 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.