01 — MINI ACCOUNT
Get your MINI account.
When Pioneer launches, activate your account for $1 one time and get your MINI wallet address. Activation is included with official Mini Miners hardware. Public accounts are not open yet.
Beginner to expert
Get started with Mini Miners.
Start with a ready-to-go miner and a simple setup page, or jump straight into DIY hardware, firmware and network details. One page, two paths.
Beginner path
Plug in. Connect. Mine.
The normal Mini Miner experience is being built so you do not need Arduino, a command line or source-code editing.
02 — LOCAL SETUP
Connect your miner.
Power the miner, open its local setup page, choose Wi-Fi, enter your wallet and give the miner a recognizable name.
03 — MINE
Let it run.
The miner connects to the pool, receives MiniPOW work, submits shares and keeps working without a PC attached.
What you can watch
The testnet is already running.
Our development Testnet is already running. The public pool shows online miners, MiniPOW/s, accepted shares, difficulty and test MINI activity. Testnet MINI has no monetary value and will not transfer to Pioneer. The first public network where miners can earn real MINI will be Pioneer; an independent blockchain is planned for Mainnet.
DIY / expert path
Bring your own hardware.
Beginner-friendly does not mean closed. Mini Miners is being developed around inexpensive ESP32 hardware with room for builders to flash, test, measure and experiment.
ESP32 miners
Reference firmware uses the same MiniPOW system as ready-to-go miners. Supported-board instructions and public release binaries will be published as development stabilizes.
Firmware & diagnostics
Advanced users can work with source builds, serial diagnostics, firmware versions, OTA behavior and board-specific testing.
MiniPOW & benchmarks
MiniPOW/s measures complete MiniPOW work attempts per second. Real device measurements let us compare boards without pretending raw conventional hashrate is the goal.
Protocol & infrastructure
The current Testnet is for development. Pioneer will use server-maintained balances for real MINI, with a planned freeze and audit before valid balances carry into the future independent Mainnet blockchain.
Pioneer Network is coming
Start small. Grow your mining setup.
Every MINI account starts with two allowed miners. Meet the genuine mining activity requirements for seven days and you can add five more, up to 32 miners per account. Learn about the 95% activity requirement in our FAQ.
Why limit miners? MINI is built to give everyday people a fair chance. Gradually increasing the number of miners helps slow down large mining farms and makes it harder for them to dominate the network right from the start.
Why $1? Each account has a one-time $1 activation to discourage mass account creation. It is not a monthly fee or a charge per miner. Official Mini Miners hardware includes activation; DIY miners can activate separately for $1. The voucher and payment systems are still being developed, and public registration will open with Pioneer.