Mine Bitcoin Cash with a Bitaxe, step by step

Yes. Bitcoin Cash was born from a split of Bitcoin in 2017 and kept the same mining calculation, SHA-256 The hash calculation Bitcoin uses, and so mining. Bitcoin Cash uses the same one: the same machines mine either.. It is not even the machine that picks the coin: it hashes the blocks the pool A server that machines connect to. A regular pool shares the earnings, a solo pool does not. Solo or pool? sends it, and the pool decides the network. Moving to Bitcoin Cash therefore means switching pool and entering a Bitcoin Cash address instead of your Bitcoin address. Nothing to flash, nothing to buy.

The same goes for every small SHA-256 machine: the Bitaxe, the NerdQAxe++ or the NerdOctaxe, which run AxeOS The open-source Bitaxe software, set from a browser: pool, frequency, voltage, fan. Update it or an interface from the same family, as well as the Avalon Nano 3S, which is set up in the Avalon Family app.

Same machine, two networks. Bitcoin: network as of 17 October 2026, mempool The waiting room for transactions not yet written into a block. Whoever builds the block chooses which ones go in..space price; Bitcoin Cash: data of 28 October 2026, read from the pool’s node A computer that keeps a full copy of Bitcoin and checks every block itself. Run your own node, Coinbase The first transaction of a block, the one that pays the reward. On a solo pool it pays your address directly. price

What matters	Bitcoin	Bitcoin Cash
The machine, its chip, AxeOS	the same	the same
Hashrate Computing power: the number of attempts per second of a machine or of the whole network. The higher it is, the more tickets you play in each draw., power draw, heat, noise	the same	the same
The pool	a Bitcoin pool	a Bitcoin Cash pool
The address, in the User field	a Bitcoin address (bc1…, 1… or 3…)	a Bitcoin Cash address (bitcoincash:q… or q…)
The difficulty How many attempts it takes on average to find a block. It adjusts itself about every two weeks. Difficulty explained	adjusted every 2016 blocks	adjusted at every block
What a block pays	about 3.137 BTC including fees, or about €227,000	3.125 BCH plus tiny fees, or about €840
Your odds of finding a block	the baseline	about 270 times better

You need a Bitcoin Cash address from a wallet whose keys you hold. Bitcoin Cash has its own address format, CashAddr: bitcoincash:q… for a regular address, bitcoincash:p… for a script address. The bitcoincash: prefix is part of the address checksum, and the standard allows it to be left out on display, so many wallets show the address straight away as q…. It is the same address.

Two traps. A Bitcoin bc1… address does not exist on Bitcoin Cash. The old 1… or 3… format, on the other hand, is still valid on both networks: a Bitcoin address starting with 1 would therefore receive your BCH, but on a key managed by a Bitcoin wallet that will not show them. CashAddr exists precisely to avoid that confusion. And as on Bitcoin, never use an exchange address: a block reward arrives through a coinbase transaction, which not every exchange can credit.

Bitcoin Cash wallets where you keep the keys, to download only from their official site:

• Electron Cash (electroncash.org), on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. Its site warns that it is the only official site: beware of copies.
• Selene Wallet (selene.cash), on iPhone, Android and in the browser, open source.
• Cashonize (cashonize.com), in the browser or as a Windows, Linux and Android app, open source.
• Paytaca (paytaca.com), on Android, iPhone and as a Chrome extension.
• A hardware wallet: Ledger and Trezor also handle Bitcoin Cash, according to their official pages.

Write the recovery phrase down on paper, then copy the receiving address and check it character by character: it is the one that would receive the block. Hot, cold or hardware wallet: which one to choose.

FindMyBlock Bitcoin Cash is my pool, the Bitcoin Cash sibling of FindMyBlock. Its fee is 1.5%, taken only from a block found (the Bitcoin pool stays at 0%). It is non-custodial: if your machine finds a block, the coinbase transaction sends 98.5% of the reward straight to your address, and the 1.5% fee goes to a separate output of the same transaction.

1. Open AxeOS: type the machine’s IP address in your browser, then open the Pool page from the menu.
2. Stratum Host: eu.bch.findmyblock.xyz on its own, without stratum+tcp:// or the port. Since AxeOS 2.11, if you paste the full address, AxeOS strips the prefix and moves the port into its own box; on an older version, type only the server name.
3. Stratum Port: 4335, the one for home miners. Port 4338 is for rented hashrate (NiceHash, MiningRigRentals): its share difficulty is fixed, and far too high for a Bitaxe.
4. User: your Bitcoin Cash address, a dot, then a name for the machine (bitaxe1, bitaxe2…). On this pool, the bitcoincash: prefix is optional.
5. Password: x.
6. Decode Coinbase Tx: if your AxeOS has this box (since version 2.13), untick it. It displays the addresses the block pays, but in Bitcoin format, and its tooltip says to disable it on non-Bitcoin chains.
7. Save, then Restart. After a minute or two, the hashrate shows in AxeOS; on bch.findmyblock.xyz, type your address to see the machine.

Since AxeOS 2.15 (August 2026), the Pool page keeps a list of pools: you can store FindMyBlock Bitcoin and FindMyBlock Bitcoin Cash there and pick the one that mines under “Primary Pool”. The NerdQAxe++ and the NerdOctaxe have the same four fields. On an Avalon Nano 3S, the same details go into the Avalon Family app, where you enter the pool; if it asks for the full server address, it reads stratum+tcp://eu.bch.findmyblock.xyz:4335. The rest of the walkthrough, from Wi-Fi to AxeOS: set up a Bitaxe.

Two other Bitcoin Cash solo pools, checked on 28 October 2026 on their own pages. The fee matters less than the real question: who receives the block. Either the coinbase transaction pays your address directly and the pool never touches your BCH, or the pool collects the block and pays it out to you afterwards.

Bitcoin Cash solo pools for a Bitaxe, checked on 28 October 2026 on their own pages. Who receives the block: read in the coinbase transaction of one of their blocks (973,887, 974,821 and 974,775)

Pool	Fee	Who receives the block	Server for a Bitaxe	Address accepted
FindMyBlock Bitcoin Cash (my pool)	1.5%	your address, directly in the coinbase (98.5%)	eu.bch.findmyblock.xyz, port 4335	with or without bitcoincash:
SoloPool.org	2%	your address, directly in the coinbase (98%)	eu2.solopool.org, port 8002	with or without bitcoincash:
2Miners SOLO	1.5%	the pool, which pays the block out to you afterwards	solo-bch.2miners.com, port 9393	bitcoincash:… or q… (a 1… address must be converted)

On SoloPool.org, the user is written the same way as on my pool, your address, a dot and a machine name, with x as the password. Take port 8002, meant for small hardware: its share difficulty, 250K according to the pool, gives a Bitaxe Gamma one accepted share every fifteen minutes or so. The hashrate the pool displays becomes jumpy, but your odds of a block do not change.

On 2Miners, the user is your address and the password x; share difficulty there ranges from 32K to 16M (its help page). The pool keeps the block found, then pays it out to you minus its 1.5%, with payouts every two hours according to its page: convenient, but your BCH pass through the pool. To compare Bitcoin solo pools, fees and custody included: which solo pool to choose.

Like Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash finds a block roughly every ten minutes, but with far fewer machines: about 3.7 EH/s according to its difficulty of 28 October 2026, against about 1,006 EH/s for Bitcoin (network as of 17 October 2026). Its difficulty is therefore about 270 times lower, and the same machine has about 270 times the chance of finding a block.

Chance of finding at least one block solo, worked out from each network’s difficulty. Bitcoin: network as of 17 October 2026; Bitcoin Cash: difficulty of 28 October 2026, read from the pool’s node

Machine	Bitcoin, within a year	Bitcoin Cash, within a year	Bitcoin Cash, within ten years
Bitaxe Gamma (1.2 TH/s rated)	1 in 16,000	1 in 59	16%
Bitaxe Gamma GT Turbo (2.28 TH/s read in the interface)	1 in 8,400	1 in 31	28%
NerdQAxe++ Hydro (about 4.8 TH/s rated)	1 in 3,990	1 in 15	50%
Avalon Nano 3S (6 TH/s rated)	1 in 3,190	1 in 12	57%
NerdOctaxe (9.6 to 9.7 TH/s measured at the wall)	1 in 1,980	13%	75%

Since 15 November 2020, Bitcoin Cash’s difficulty has followed the ASERT rule: it is recalculated at every block, depending on whether the chain runs ahead of or behind the pace of one block every ten minutes, so your odds move from one day to the next when big miners arrive or leave.

The flip side: a Bitcoin Cash block pays 3.125 BCH, about €840 at the price of 28 October 2026, against about €227,000 for a Bitcoin block, or about 270 times less. On average, a machine earns about the same on either: roughly €14 a year for a Bitaxe Gamma on Bitcoin, €14 on Bitcoin Cash after a 1.5% pool fee, before about €32 of electricity a year (18 W rated, at €0.20 per kWh). So Bitcoin Cash does not change the average: it changes the shape of the lottery, with a smaller prize that a home machine can actually reach. And you receive BCH, not bitcoin.

Your Bitcoin odds with your own machine and its electricity: the solo mining calculator. The Bitcoin Cash details, with their own calculator: solo mining Bitcoin Cash.

Yes, on my pool FindMyBlock Bitcoin Cash: block 970,130, found by a NerdQAxe++ on 25 September 2026, then block 970,943, found by a Bitaxe on 1 October 2026. The pool recognises the machine family from the name its software sends. Every block found by the pool carries the “FindMyBlock BCH” signature in its coinbase transaction, and the explorer shows the reward going to the miner’s address: the proof, block by block.

These blocks change nothing about your machine’s odds: a Bitaxe Gamma still has a 1 in 59 chance a year, and about a 16% chance over ten years. But they show that the Bitcoin Cash prize is within reach of a desk miner, which remains much rarer on Bitcoin (the Bitcoin blocks found solo).

As on Bitcoin, the reward has to wait 100 blocks before it can be spent: this is the maturity rule, kept in Bitcoin Cash Node’s code. At one block every ten minutes, count on about 16 hours 40 minutes. Count the confirmations on a Bitcoin Cash explorer such as Blockchair, not on mempool.space, which does not cover Bitcoin Cash.

What comes next, the proof to keep and the checks at the exchange where you might sell, works as on Bitcoin: found a block solo, what happens next. On taxes, in France the tax administration classes mining profits as non-commercial profits (BNC), whatever the cryptocurrency (impots.gouv.fr page updated on 17 July 2026). This is general information, not tax advice: with a block at stake, get professional help, and outside France check your own country’s rules.

Nothing to reinstall: go back to AxeOS’s Pool page and put the Bitcoin settings back, host eu.findmyblock.xyz, port 3335, your Bitcoin address followed by a dot and the machine name, and x. Tick “Decode Coinbase Tx” again: on Bitcoin, it shows you the address the pool pays. Save, restart, done.

With AxeOS 2.15, if both pools are in the list, simply pick FindMyBlock Bitcoin as “Primary Pool”. Keep in mind that each pool has its own User field: a Bitcoin address for a Bitcoin pool, a Bitcoin Cash address for a Bitcoin Cash pool. The same goes for the “Fallback Pool”: setting up the fallback pool properly.

Bitcoin stays this site’s priority, and FindMyBlock Bitcoin, my pool, stays fee-free: solo mining on FindMyBlock.