How to Mine Epic Cash (EPIC) — RandomX CPU Guide (epic-miner)

A step-by-step guide to mining Epic Cash on the pool.ion.cool pool: a ready epic-miner.toml for RandomX, autostart with systemd, the stratum port and how payouts work. No accounts and no sign-ups — your wallet address is your identity on the pool.

1%pool fee

1 hourpayout interval

0.1 EPICminimum payout

pool.ion.cool:33339stratum

PROPreward scheme

0accounts required

What you need

A modern CPU — RandomX is a CPU algorithm: every core of your processor can work
epic-miner — the Epic team's own miner: ready-made builds on the GitLab releases page (Windows zip for CPU and OpenCL, Debian .deb for CPU/CUDA/OpenCL), or built from source on GitHub (Rust)
Your EPIC wallet address — see step 1
Nothing else: the pool has no accounts, logins or email confirmation

1. Get your EPIC wallet

Official wallet: Epic Cash wallet
Explorer (to check payments): https://explorer.epicmine.io
Wallet: the Epic GUI wallet for Windows, macOS and Linux, from the official releases
EPIC is MimbleWimble: there are no persistent addresses on the chain — copy the fresh address your wallet shows on Receive and reuse it as your pool login
Exchanges: TradeOgre and ChangeNOW list EPIC (per epic.tech)

Use your own wallet address, not an exchange deposit address, unless the exchange explicitly says it supports pool payouts to EPIC.

2. Get epic-miner

Option A — a ready-made build (recommended on Windows). The Epic team publishes binaries on the GitLab releases page; the current release is 2.3.1. We unpacked it and ran both packages against this pool:

Windows: epic-miner_2.3.1-1.zip (CPU, RandomX) and epic-miner-opencl_2.3.1-1.zip (GPU, ProgPow). The zip already contains epic-miner.toml, Sockets-style plugins and the DLLs it needs
Debian/Ubuntu: epic-miner_2.3.1-1_amd64.deb, plus the epic-miner-cuda_… and epic-miner-opencl_… packages
Heads-up for modern distros: these .deb files target the Ubuntu 18.04 library set (libssl1.1, libncursesw.so.5, librandomx.so). On Ubuntu 22.04/24.04 the binary stops immediately with error while loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.5 — we saw exactly that. On such systems use option B instead

Option B — build from source (any current Linux):

Toolchain on Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt install build-essential cmake clang libssl-dev pkg-config git plus Rust
Build it: git clone https://github.com/EpicCash/epic-miner && cd epic-miner && cargo build --release
The binary lands in target/release/epic-miner; run ./target/release/epic-miner new_config to drop an epic-miner.toml into the current folder

3. Create the mining config

Windows — keep it as epic-miner.toml next to the binary

# epic-miner.toml
[mining]
algorithm = "RandomX"
stratum_server_addr = "pool.ion.cool:33339"
stratum_server_login = "<YOUR_EPIC_ADDRESS>.RIG1"
stratum_server_password = "x"

# run (-c is optional when epic-miner.toml sits next to the binary)
epic-miner.exe -c epic-miner.toml

Linux — same file, next to the binary (or pass it with -c)

# epic-miner.toml
[mining]
algorithm = "RandomX"
stratum_server_addr = "pool.ion.cool:33339"
stratum_server_login = "<YOUR_EPIC_ADDRESS>.RIG1"
stratum_server_password = "x"

# run
./epic-miner -c epic-miner.toml

Replace <YOUR_EPIC_ADDRESS> with your real address and RIG1 with your rig name
Wallet format: ADDRESS or ADDRESS.rigname — everything after the dot is the worker name
epic-miner has no pool flags at all: stratum_server_addr, stratum_server_login and algorithm live in the config file
The password is ignored by the pool — any value works
Several rigs: same address, different rig names (ADDRESS.rig1, ADDRESS.rig2, …)

Miners: what was tested against this pool

Miner	Algorithm	Result on this pool
epic-miner, official CPU build Windows zip and Linux build	RandomX (CPU)	Works — tested. Connects, picks up the job and sends shares the pool accepts; the rigs show up in the Miners table under your address
epic-miner-opencl, official GPU build Windows zip	ProgPow (GPU)	Works — tested. RTX 5060 laptop GPU held about 15.4 MH/s and the log was a steady stream of accepted shares
TT-Miner 2024.3.2 `-c epic`, Windows	ProgPow (GPU)	Protocol OK, no hashrate here. It logs `Connected to epic://pool.ion.cool:33339`, receives jobs and the difficulty, so it speaks this pool's dialect — but the 2024.3.2 build ships no CUDA kernel for RTX 50-series (`compute 12.0`) and stays at 0 H/s on an RTX 5060, therefore it produced no shares. Expect it to work on older NVIDIA/AMD cards
XMRig-Epic github.com/epicminepool/xmrig-epic	RandomX (CPU)	Not compatible (verified). It is built for pools that reshape the job into XMRig's `blob` / `target` / `seed_hash` format, like epicmine.io. This pool passes the Epic node's own job, so the miner closes the connection right after the login reply — we captured the exchange to confirm it
SRBMiner-MULTI 3.7.3 srbminer.com	ProgPow (GPU)	Not tested against this pool. It does carry Epic Cash — `progpow_epic`, ProgPow on GPU — but its own example points at `de.epicmine.io`, a pool that reshapes the job into a plain stratum format, while this pool passes the Epic node's own dialect (see the XMRig-Epic row above). So: a plausible candidate, but we have no run of it here and do not claim it works

Our own run, October 2026: the two official Windows builds side by side for 2.5 minutes produced 1221 valid shares on this pool (one CPU rig, one GPU rig), and every one of them is visible in the Miners table
Epic rotates the working algorithm — RandomX, then ProgPow, then Cuckoo. A CPU miner only hashes during the RandomX window and a GPU miner only during the ProgPow window, so long stretches of 0 hps between jobs are normal, not a fault
Results are re-checked whenever the pool or a miner is updated; the pool software itself is open, so a miner that speaks the Epic node's stratum dialect is expected to work

4. Pool ports

Server	Port	Protocol	Difficulty
pool.ion.cool	33339	stratum	1000

Port 33339 — plain stratum, the recommended default
The address bar of this page is always the server: pool.ion.cool

5. Autostart with systemd

epic-miner has no HiveOS build — run it on any Linux machine. To survive reboots, create /etc/systemd/system/epic-miner.service:

[Unit]
Description=epic-miner (EPIC)
After=network-online.target

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/opt/epic-miner
ExecStart=/opt/epic-miner/epic-miner -c /opt/epic-miner/epic-miner.toml
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then enable it:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl enable --now epic-miner

Set run_tui = false in epic-miner.toml: a service has no terminal, and with the TUI off the miner logs its shares to stdout instead.

6. Track your statistics

Dashboard: https://pool.ion.cool/epic/ — paste your wallet into My Stats to see your hashrate, shares and rounds
Miners table on the dashboard shows every rig live, with per-hour hashrate and pool share
Payments tab lists every payout with its transaction ID
Public API: https://pool.ion.cool/api/pools (miningcore-compatible JSON: hashrate, connected miners, blocks, payments)

How payouts work

Scheme: PROP — your reward is proportional to your valid shares in each round
Cycle: the pool pays out every hour once your balance reaches 0.1 EPIC
Maturity: a block reward becomes spendable after 1440 confirmations (~24 hours) — a rule of the network, not a pool delay
Fee: 1% — taken from the block rewards (reward recipients), never from your balance
Blocks: under PROP you are paid from the blocks the pool finds; until the first block is found, balances only accumulate
Every payment is visible in the Payments tab and in the block explorer

Why this pool

	pool.ion.cool	Solo mining (your own node)
Pool fee	1%	0% — but you only ever win what your own CPU finds
Setup	epic-miner plus one config file	a synced Epic node plus its wallet listener
Reward rhythm	PROP — a steady share of every block the pool finds	you wait for your own block
Statistics	live per-rig hashrate, shares and blocks	whatever your node logs
Account to start	none — mine straight to your wallet	none

Epic Cash is multi-algorithm: the node issues RandomX, ProgPow and Cuckoo jobs in turn, and epic-miner works only the algorithm named in its config — it sits out the jobs of the other two and picks the next RandomX one up.

One dashboard for every coin on this pool: Quantus, Pearl, Core, Qwertycoin, Epic Cash, PCoin, Block Zero & Orange — mine them in the same place (see also Quantus)
Live per-rig statistics, share charts and a public API — no login required
Hourly payouts, PROP, no registration and no minimum account balance

FAQ

Do I need an account to mine here?

No. Point your miner at pool.ion.cool:33339 with your wallet address and the dashboard will find you by that address. There is no registration, login or email confirmation.

When will I be paid?

The pool pays out every hour once your balance reaches 0.1 EPIC. Balances accumulate from the blocks the pool finds, and a block reward becomes spendable after 1440 confirmations (~24 hours) — so the first payout lands about a day after the first block.

Which miner should I use?

epic-miner — the miner published by the Epic team — is the tested option: it speaks the node's own stratum dialect, which carries the whole proof (height, job, nonce and the algorithm's solution) rather than a header hash. Use its OpenCL build if you have a GPU (ProgPow). The rest of the field has no verified run on this pool: SRBMiner-MULTI 3.7.3 does carry Epic Cash (progpow_epic, ProgPow on GPU) but its own example is written for a pool that reshapes the job, and XMRig-Epic is written for pools that reshape jobs into XMRig's blob/target/seed_hash format and drops the connection here. Full test results are in the miners table above.

Can I mine from several rigs with one address?

Yes. Use the same address for every rig and give each a unique suffix after the dot: ADDRESS.rig1, ADDRESS.rig2. Each rig gets its own row in the Miners table.

Is there an encrypted (TLS) connection?

The EPIC pool currently exposes plain stratum on port 33339 only — that is the port to use. TLS support may be added later; watch this page.

Where do I see my hashrate and payments?

On the dashboard: My Stats for your wallet, the Miners table for each rig, and the Payments tab for payout transactions. Machines can also poll the public API.