StoaChain Mining Pool

The StoaChain Mining Pool lets a miner point a rig at a single shared endpoint and earn automatic daily native-STOA payouts — instead of mining solo and waiting for a block of their own. Many miners contribute hashrate; the pool finds blocks more steadily; each miner is paid their share of the proceeds, daily, with no manual withdrawal step.

What it is

A mining pool aggregates the work of many independent rigs into one effort. Solo mining is all-or-nothing: a small rig may go a very long time before it finds a block. Pooling smooths that out — every accepted share counts toward the pool’s collective block-finding, and when the pool earns, every contributor earns a proportional cut. The AncientHoldings pool is the first Stoa Pool: it pays in native STOA, the chain’s own token, not a wrapped or off-chain IOU.

How to participate

Getting paid by the pool is four steps:

1. Have a hub account. The pool is operated from the AncientHoldings Hub — sign in (or sign up) as you would for any other hub service.
2. Enable Pooled Mining. Turn on the Pooled Mining surface for your account (/hub/pooled-mining). This is your private dashboard — you see only your own workers, hashrate, accepted/stale shares, owed balance, and payout history; never anyone else’s.
3. Create workers.A “worker” is one named rig. On the Manage workers page (/hub/pool/workers) add a worker per machine, then point that machine’s miner at the stratum endpointshown on the worker, authenticating with the worker’s own connection credential as the username (the password is ignored). Each worker reports its live hashrate and accepted/stale share counts back to your dashboard.
4. Add & prove a payout address. Register the StoaChain address you want to be paid to, then prove you control it: the pool gives you a one-line challenge message, you sign it with the key that controls the address (the embedded key for a k:account, or any key in a named account’s keyset), and paste the signature back. Only a proven address is ever paid — earnings can never be pushed to an address typed in by mistake or by someone else. Changing the address later requires proving the new one before it can be paid.

The payout model — 7% fee, daily, pushed

The pool charges a flat 7% fee on pool proceeds; the rest is distributed to miners by their share of the work. Payouts are:

• Automatic and daily. Once a day the pool settles and sends what each miner is owed. There is nothing to schedule.
• Whole-STOA.Payouts are made in whole STOA; a fractional remainder below one whole token rolls over and accumulates toward your next day’s payout rather than being lost.
• Pushed, not withdrawn. There is no withdraw button and nothing to claim — the pool pushes your earnings to your verified payout address on its own. Your dashboard shows the running owed balance and the full history of payments already pushed.

The pool frontend

The pool has its own front door at mining.ancientholdings.eu. Logged out, it is a public landing that explains the pool and lets you sign up; signed in, it is a pool-branded version of the same dashboard and worker-management pages you see inside the hub. The hub and the subdomain are one surface in two skins: whether you open it from the hub’s Pooled Mining page or from the public pool subdomain, you are looking at the identical per-account dashboard, scoped to your own workers.

Health & operation

Behind the scenes the operator watches a Capacity & Healthverdict for the pool host — a plain-English 🟢 healthy / 🟡 contention rising / 🔴 migrate read assembled from host load, CPU contention, orphan and stale-share rates, and block-submission latency — so the pool stays responsive as it grows. Pool economics (the coinbase and savings accounts, the fee, the payout threshold, the attribution window, and the block-confirmation depth) are configured by the operator from an Ancient-only settings surface.

Related: The Stoic System (how on-chain earning is scored) and Nodes (running infrastructure on the hub).