Install miners
Use one of these two paths when adding rigs. The installer offers a friendly worker-name prompt and keeps a unique hostname plus machine-id default if the user just presses Enter.
Path 1
Already solo mining
Use this for rigs that already have exactly one active BTX solo miner. The installer reads the current solo payout address, pauses solo mining while pool mode is active, and starts the performance pool miner.
curl -fsSL https://poolbtx.com/join.sh | bash -s -- --wallet auto --prompt-worker --pause-solo --start
- Best for your existing physical 5090s that already solo mine.
- Prompts for a friendly dashboard name, or Enter keeps the unique default.
- Fails closed if it cannot find exactly one solo payout address.
- Does not touch wallet files, blocks, chainstate, or node config.
- Reports if GPU sensors are hidden from WSL instead of silently losing util/watts/temp.
Path 2
Brand new or Vast start
Use this when the machine is not already solo mining, when you are renting a fresh host, or when you want to choose the payout address explicitly.
curl -fsSL https://poolbtx.com/join.sh | bash -s -- --wallet YOUR_BTX_ADDRESS --prompt-worker --pause-solo --start
- Replace
YOUR_BTX_ADDRESSwith the payout address for that machine. - Prompts for a friendly dashboard name, or Enter keeps the unique default.
- Best for Vast, friends, clean servers, and rigs where auto-detect is uncertain.
- Same high-performance path and same read-only telemetry.
- Status output includes the GPU telemetry probe path and any sensor error.
Record keeping
The payout address is the part before the dot in the Stratum worker. The dashboard rolls lanes up into one row per machine so you can track real rigs, not internal worker lanes.
After install
Check a rig with
/opt/btx-pool/status.sh. A heartbeat should appear quickly; full GPU numbers can take the first sampling minute. Stop or restart with /opt/btx-pool/stop.sh and /opt/btx-pool/start.sh.
Manual settings
Use these if someone wants to configure a miner by hand instead of the one-line installer.
Manual miner settings
Host
poolbtx.com
Port
3333
Worker
YOUR_BTX_ADDRESS.your-rig-name
Password
x