Start mining
in four steps.
Create a wallet, choose a pool, change your miner settings, and take a look at the dashboard. That is the whole process. No sign-up, no email, no app. Your wallet address is your account.
1Get a wallet address
where your coins will be paid
You need a NEXA address that you control. It starts with
and looks like . The pool pays directly
to it, so keep the wallet's backup phrase somewhere safe.
The wallet the community uses is Otoplo, available for phone and desktop. Install it, create a wallet, write down the recovery words, then copy your receive address.
You need an INI address that you control. It starts with
0x and is 42 characters long, like 0xAbc…xyZ. If you
already mined INI with your INIBOX, the address you used back then works as is.
INI runs on the InitVerse network, which is EVM-compatible. The wallet the community uses is FoxWallet, which supports InitVerse out of the box; any Ethereum-style wallet that lets you add a custom network also works. Keep the recovery words safe, then copy your address.
2Pick a pool
same coin, two ways to get paid · click one to select itPPLNS shared
Every block the pool finds is split between all miners in proportion to the work they sent. Steady, predictable income, paid automatically . The right choice for one or a few machines.
SOLO all or nothing
You only get paid when your own machines find a block, and then you get the whole reward. With one or a few miners, that can take days. For large farms, or if you like the lottery.
3Point your miner at the pool
three fields, that's allWhatever hardware you run, the pool only needs these three settings. The port is the only thing that changes between PPLNS and SOLO. Everything below follows the pool you picked in step 2; you can also switch it here.
rig1, garage2, box07). The dashboard lists each
worker separately, so you can see at a glance which one went quiet. If you skip the
name the pool still works; the worker just shows up as default.
INIBOX and other ASICs
- Find the INIBOX's IP on your router, then open its control panel in a browser:
http://<ip>:26666/minerconfiguration.html(for examplehttp://192.168.1.50:26666/minerconfiguration.html). If it asks for a password, it is the panel password that came with the machine. - You land on Miner Configuration → General Settings. Under Pool 1 fill in URL, Worker and Password with the three values from the table above, exactly as shown.
- Leave Pool 2 and Pool 3 empty, or repeat the same pool. Do not leave an old pool there: if Pool 1 ever drops, the INIBOX would silently go back to it.
- Click Save&Apply and wait for the "changes applied" message. We recommend rebooting the miner afterwards (System page, or unplug and plug it back in) so it starts clean on the new pool.
- Open Miner Status. Within about five minutes the pool row should show Accepted going up. If it only shows Rejected or nothing at all, check the URL for typos.
GPUs (NexaPoW)
- Any miner that supports NexaPoW works: lolMiner, BzMiner and Rigel are the common ones. Download from the official source only.
- Start it with the pool URL and your address as the user. lolMiner example, one line:
- Other miners use the same three values with their own flags. Check the miner's README for the exact algorithm name; the pool side never changes.
4Watch it work
your address is your loginEach pool has its own dashboard. For the pool you picked in step 2, , it is . Open it and paste your address in the search box. Within about five minutes your worker shows up as live. Hashrate on the dashboard is a one-hour average from the shares you sent, so give it an hour before comparing it with the number on your miner.
Payouts. PPLNS pays automatically , oldest first, to the address you mine with. Every block the pool finds adds your share to the queue. Amounts shown as maturing are already yours, but the network locks freshly mined NEXA for about a week. They pay out automatically once unlocked. SOLO pays the full block reward, minus the pool fee, to the address you mine with whenever one of your own machines finds a block. Amounts shown as maturing are already yours, but the network locks freshly mined NEXA for about a week. They pay out automatically once unlocked.
Alerts. Our Telegram bot
@inipool_alerts_bot
pings you when a worker goes offline for more than ten minutes, and again when it is
back. Send it /watch followed by your address. Free, every pool.
Common problems
read this before asking, it is usually one of theseMy worker shows as idle, or does not show up at all
The pool rejects my shares
stratum+tcp:// and the port matches the pool you want. GPU miners must be set to NexaPoW (called NEXA in lolMiner). If it rejects everything for more than a few minutes, restart the miner once and ask on Telegram with the exact error text.The dashboard hashrate is lower than my miner says
When do I get paid, and where do I see it?
What does "maturing" mean on my balance?
快速开始（中文）
- 准备一个你自己控制的 钱包地址（）。
- 先选择模式：PPLNS（按算力比例分配，定期支付，推荐）端口 ；SOLO（自己挖到区块才有收益）端口 。两者只有端口不同。
- INIBOX 用户：在浏览器打开 http://矿机IP:26666/minerconfiguration.html，在 Pool 1 填写 URL、Worker、Password，Pool 2 和 Pool 3 留空，然后点 Save&Apply。
- 矿池地址 ，矿工名 钱包地址.机器名（例如 ），密码 x。
- 保存并重启矿机。约五分钟后在 矿池页面 粘贴钱包地址即可查看算力和收益。
- PPLNS 模式自动支付到你的钱包，无需申请。新挖出的 NEXA 需要约一周解锁，显示为 maturing 的金额已经属于你。
- 有问题请加入 Telegram 群，我们会尽快回复。
Still stuck?
real people answer, usually within the hourTell us which coin, which pool, what your miner shows and, if you can, your address. Operators read everything in the group, and setup questions are the most common thing we answer.