ArkPool: Hourly Ark payouts, now with a Start9 gateway
ArkPool (https://arkpool.org) makes Bitcoin mining about stacking sats regularly: hourly Ark payouts, a 1-sat minimum, and no pool account or email registration. Use your Ark address, connect your miner through the gateway, and track your earnings through the miner dashboard.
ArkPool Gateway is now available for StartOS. The latest release includes two independent Tor paths, TLS support, and a password-protected local dashboard. It’s been tested on StartOS 0.4.0.2 with a real Bitaxe, including accepted shares and Tor-path recovery.
The gateway keeps mining traffic on Tor without a clearnet fallback. It doesn’t hold your wallet keys. The current package supports x86_64 and is available to sideload.
Get started
- ArkPool website (https://arkpool.org)
- StartOS open source release and download (https://gitlab.com/arkpool/arkpool-gateway-startos/-/releases/v1.0.0_8)
- Open-source gateway and Docker setup (https://gitlab.com/arkpool/arkpool-gateway)
Need an Ark wallet?
- Bark and compatible mobile wallets from Second (https://second.tech/docs/built-with-bark#mobile-wallets)
- Shhark — self-hosted, Bark-powered wallet (https://gitlab.com/PiHiker/shhark)
Still an actively developed alpha—feedback, testing and contributions are welcome.
Mine. Earn. Pay. Repeat.
I've been using this pool with a single BitAxe, and get 1-2 sats paid out per hour. Something I wanted to see is how the Ark server and wallet handle these tiny VTXOs. It works surprisingly well. A refresh with a ~4 sat fee every 2-3 days seems to keep all the funds active and consolidate them into larger VTXOs.
Only down side is having a ton of tiny payments in my activity list. I'll have to see if I can auto-group them or so.
Which mining pool are they using?
Cool concept but doesn’t tor have latency issue?
Noted ✌️ ✌️ 🫶🫶
There's an ~Ark territory btw :)