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The Zecnero testnet pool is open

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pool.zecnero.org is the official Zecnero testnet mining pool. You mine with xmrig-zecnero and your address, and no node of your own.

The official testnet pool is open at pool.zecnero.org. To mine on it you need xmrig-zecnero and a Zecnero testnet address. You don’t run a node of your own, and there is no settings file to edit.

Connect

xmrig-zecnero -o stratum.zecnero.org:3334 --tls -u YOUR_ADDRESS -a rx/zecnero

Replace YOUR_ADDRESS with your testnet address, nm… or ntestsapling1…. To tell your computers apart on the pool’s pages, add a worker name after a dot, for example nm….desktop. An address from another network is refused at login, and the message says why.

Port 3334 uses TLS. Port 3333 takes the same connection without it:

xmrig-zecnero -o stratum.zecnero.org:3333 -u YOUR_ADDRESS -a rx/zecnero

Use 3334 where you can. Some home routers and antivirus programs cut plain mining traffic, and so do some internet providers: the miner connects, gets a few shares accepted and then hears nothing more. Over TLS they can’t see that the connection is mining.

Get the miner

xmrig-zecnero is in the current release on the file host. It is built with its libraries inside, so there is nothing else to install. On Linux, or in Ubuntu under WSL on Windows:

curl -fsSLO https://downloads.zecnero.org/testnet-v0.1.1/xmrig-zecnero-linux-x86_64.tar.xz
curl -fsSLO https://downloads.zecnero.org/testnet-v0.1.1/SHA256SUMS
curl -fsSLO https://downloads.zecnero.org/testnet-v0.1.1/SHA256SUMS.asc
curl -fsSLO https://zecnero.org/zecnero.asc
gpg --import zecnero.asc
gpg --verify SHA256SUMS.asc SHA256SUMS
sha256sum -c --ignore-missing SHA256SUMS
tar -xJf xmrig-zecnero-linux-x86_64.tar.xz

You need Good signature from the key with fingerprint FFFC 8AC0 2BF7 B4B4 50B4 3B1F 6532 09A3 44E7 5767, and OK for the miner. Then run it from the same folder as ./xmrig-zecnero with the command above.

If you don’t have an address yet, the wallet makes one without a node of your own.

How the pool works

  • Each connection gets its own share difficulty, adjusted so that your miner sends a share about every 15 seconds.
  • The pool checks every share with RandomX before it counts it. Only new, valid shares for a current job count. A miner that keeps sending invalid shares is banned for 10 minutes.
  • A share that meets the network’s target is sent to the node as a block at once.
  • Blocks are split by PPLNS: each block pays the shares in a window of twice the network difficulty before it, weighted by each share’s difficulty. The pool fee on the testnet is 0%.
  • A block’s coins can be paid once it has 100 confirmations. The pool shields them first, the same rule every Zecnero wallet follows, then pays balances of 0.5 ZMR or more in batches, to transparent or Sapling addresses.

Your page on the pool is https://pool.zecnero.org/miner/YOUR_ADDRESS. It shows your hashrate, your workers, what is waiting to mature, what you are owed and every payment with a link to the explorer. The pool’s data is also public as JSON at pool.zecnero.org/api.

Keep the network spread out

The pool shows a warning when it has more than 40% of the network’s hashrate. If you see it, consider solo mining with your own node, which the mining guide sets up with one command.

Testnet coins have no value. Mainnet has not launched.

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