# Based Mining

Buy Bitcoin hashpower and Megapot lottery tickets through the BASED x402 endpoints on...

- Repository: https://github.com/BankrBot/skills (1208 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: see repository
- Last updated: 2026-10-31
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add BankrBot/skills --skill based-mining -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add BankrBot/skills --skill based-mining -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add BankrBot/skills --skill based-mining -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add BankrBot/skills --skill based-mining -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Buy Bitcoin hashpower and Megapot lottery tickets through the BASED x402 endpoints on Base. Use when the user says mine bitcoin, solo mining, based pool, buy hashpower, rent hashrate, block odds, block party, my mining payout, what would I earn if BASED hits a block, mining profitability, hashprice, bitcoin hashprice, cbBTC, WBTC, BTC basis, megapot, lottery ticket, or jackpot. Covers live pool stats, hashpower quotes, solo block odds, per-miner round status, hashprice, cbBTC/WBTC basis on Base, placing $10 mining blocks, and buying $1 lottery tickets.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# BASED Mining

BASED is a solo Bitcoin mining pool. This skill lets an agent read pool data,
price hashpower, place mining orders, and buy Megapot lottery tickets, all paid
in USDC on Base through x402.

## What BASED is

BASED is a solo Bitcoin mining pool with a 0% pool fee. Blocks it mines carry
the `/BASED/` tag in the coinbase. Any SHA-256 miner can point at
`stratum+tcp://pool.basedmining.xyz:3333` and start hashing: no signup, no fee,
nothing to pay.

Solo means a block is won by one worker rather than shared proportionally
across everyone at all times. When a BASED worker solves a block, the coinbase
transaction of that block has two outputs:

- **`vout[0]`, 1 BTC to the finder.** This is written into the block itself.
  It pays the wallet whose worker solved the block directly. It does not route
  through the operator and it cannot be withheld. No trust required.
- **`vout[1]`, the rest of the 3.125 BTC subsidy, ~2.125 BTC, plus the
  block's transaction fees, to the operator pool wallet.** Also in the
  coinbase.

What the chain enforces stops there. **Distribution of that 2.125 BTC out to
miners by round-share contribution is operator-run, not chain-enforced.** Never
describe it as automatic or trustless, and never present a round-share estimate
as a payment the chain guarantees.

That enforcement claim is byte-level, on the constructed coinbase and on the
pool running unmodified Parasite Pool. BASED has not found a block yet.

Everything below this section is a paid call. This section is what an agent can
say for free.

## How payment works

Every endpoint below is an x402 resource. Shared payment terms, taken from the
live 402 challenge:

The rest: https://github.com/BankrBot/skills/blob/HEAD/based-mining/SKILL.md