Miningcore Community Edition (MCCE)

MCCE is a modernized, actively maintained fork of Miningcore — the best open-source cryptocurrency mining pool server. The original project was discontinued and archived in 2022. This fork picks up where it left off: .NET 8, Ubuntu 24.04, performance improvements, and ongoing maintenance.

What's Different From Original

	Original Miningcore	MCCE
Status	Archived (2022)	Active
.NET Version	.NET 6	.NET 8
Target OS	Ubuntu 22.04	Ubuntu 24.04 / Windows
API Stack	MVC Controllers	Minimal APIs (4× faster)
Stratum Parsing	Newtonsoft.Json	Utf8JsonReader (5.4× faster)
Memory Alloc	7.1 KB/request	0.73 KB/request
Observability	Prometheus only	Prometheus + OpenTelemetry tracing
DB Setup	Manual SQL per pool	Auto-partitioning on pool start
Logging	Blocking I/O	Non-blocking async wrappers
Coin Support	Same	All original coins + GCC 13 fixes

Documentation

• Full Changelog — every change since the fork
• Optimizations:
  • REST API → Minimal APIs
  • Stratum JSON Parsing
  • OpenTelemetry Tracing + NLog Async
• Features:
  • Auto Share Table Partitioning
  • DB Index Improvements
  • Built-in Admin Panel
  • Config Hot-Reload
  • Connection Hardening
  • Merged Mining (AuxPoW) — private, contact for licensing
  • Merged Mining (AuxPoW) — Documentation
• Benchmarks:
  • Stratum Processing
  • API Throughput

Quick Start

# Clone
git clone https://github.com/soosho/miningcore.git
cd miningcore

# Build (Linux)
./build-ubuntu-24.04.sh

# Run
cd src/Miningcore/bin/Release/net8.0
./Miningcore -c config.json

Donations

BTC: 1AqqFf13RcfGbwa4GQGQV27T6HL1r35WVk

License

MIT — same as original Miningcore.