Rent hashrate · step by step
How to rent
Renting takes about ten minutes the first time and under a minute after that. Here is every step, including the parts that happen on MiningRigRentals after you leave this site.
What you need first
- A bitcoin wallet you control, with a little more than the rental costs. A three-hour run on one machine is usually a couple of dollars.
- A payout address for any block you might find. Use an address from your own wallet, never an exchange deposit address.
- About ten minutes. The account and the pool profile are one-time setup; after that renting again takes seconds.
Pick your machine and hours here first
On the rental page, each machine shows its cost and its real block odds for three hours, a day, or a week. Pick the row you want and press Rent now. That hands you to MiningRigRentals, the marketplace where the machine is actually listed, with that machine already open.
Nothing is charged yet, and nothing is charged on this site at any point.
Make a free MiningRigRentals account
Signup is a normal email-and-password form with a captcha, so a person has to do it once. This is the account that will hold your funds and own the rental.
One-time. If you already have one, sign in and skip ahead.
Fund your balance with bitcoin
Rentals are paid from a balance on your marketplace account, not from a card and not through us. Send bitcoin on-chain from your own wallet to the deposit address the site shows you, and wait for it to confirm. Send a bit more than the rental price so the marketplace fee is covered.
That balance stays yours. Anything left over can be withdrawn.
Create a pool profile · this is the step that decides where a block goes
A pool profile tells the machine where to send its work. Create one on the SHA256 AsicBoost algorithm, then add a pool. For a solo attempt, use solo.ckpool.org with your own bitcoin address as the worker name, which is what makes a found block pay out to you and nobody else. If you would rather have steady small payouts than a lottery ticket, point it at any normal pool instead.
The algorithm has to be SHA256 AsicBoost, not plain SHA256. They look almost identical in the menu and picking the wrong one is the single most common reason a first rental will not start.
Set the duration, then rent
On the machine's listing, choose how long you want it and select the pool profile you just made. The marketplace checks the length first, then the price, and shows you a final total including its own fee before anything is spent. Confirm, and the machine switches to your pool.
Duration is validated before price, so an odd length can be rejected before you ever see a total.
Watch it hash, and know how it ends
Your pool starts showing the machine's work within a few minutes. If it finds a block during your window, the pool pays your address directly. When the clock runs out the machine simply goes back on the market. There is nothing to cancel and no subscription.
If the pool shows nothing after ten minutes, the pool profile is almost always the cause. Check the algorithm first.
The two things that go wrong
- Picking plain SHA256 instead of SHA256 AsicBoost when building the pool profile. The rental will not start on the right algorithm, and the fix is a thirty-second edit to the profile.
- Using an exchange deposit address as the solo payout address. Exchanges credit expected deposits, not surprise block rewards, and some will not credit it at all. Use an address from a wallet you hold the keys to.
Then what?
That is the whole loop. Most people rent three hours the first time to watch how it works, then decide whether a longer window is worth it. The odds on the rental page update with the live network, so the number you see is the number you get.
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