SPEARMINT SPMTC

Spearmint/Guides

Guides · policies · developer documentation

Everything is written down. Start here.

These pages are the way in: how to point hardware at the network, how a block reward becomes a payout to your address, how to run your own node, and exactly what the mining service will and will not do. The legal drafts and the developer rules are public too, because the design only works if it can be checked.

Pre-launch · pool not open 2027 working assumption

Mine it

Spearmint Mining is pool infrastructure operated by Instant Access. You bring SHA-256 hardware and an address you control; it apportions block rewards and pays them to that address.

  • Spearmint Mining

    Mine Spearmint

    Endpoints, worker setup, difficulty and shares, the 1% pool fee, PPLNS, the daily payout run, and why you must use your own address.

    Start here
  • Spearmint Mining

    How mining rewards work

    From your hardware to a coinbase transaction to your address, step by step, with a worked example and the one arrow that does not exist: a deposit.

    Read next
  • Spearmint Mining

    Transparency

    Reward methodology, fee, payout mechanics, block maturity, source availability, network rules, and what is published where and how often.

  • Spearmint Mining

    Support

    What support can help with (connections, workers, payouts by address and block height) and what it cannot (keys, reversals, prices).

Run it

Spearmint the network is Bitcoin Core with changed chain parameters. Nobody owns it, including the company that directs the software. Running a node is how you stop having to trust anyone on this site.

  • Network

    Run a Spearmint Core node

    Build from source, configure it with RPC on localhost only, verify the rules yourself, and mine solo against it if you prefer that to a pool.

    Independent
  • Network

    Network statistics

    Block height, hashrate, difficulty, recent blocks, node counts, pool concentration. Every figure checkable against your own node. Live at launch.

  • Network

    Economic policy

    The 210 million cap, 50 SPMTC initial reward, halving ladder, and the 8% pre-launch acquisition, published before genesis so they can be argued with.

  • Network

    Build log

    The engineering record, failures included: exact commands, tracebacks, fixes, and the chain identity as it was chosen.

Check it

The service is designed so its functionality, not its disclaimers, keeps it a mining pool. These pages show the design and the reasoning, and they name what is still open for counsel.

  • Compliance

    What the service does and does not do

    Plain English. The custody statement, the guidance the design is measured against (FinCEN, Pennsylvania, OFAC), and how each product decision enforces the posture.

    Plain English
  • Developer docs

    Architecture and value flow

    Two diagrams — the work path and the reward path — the data model, operational keys, and the interfaces that deliberately do not exist.

  • Developer docs

    Compliance-by-design matrix

    Every feature scored against custody, money transmission, exchange, securities, OFAC, consumer protection and privacy, with the ones to omit marked.

  • Developer docs

    Regulatory change control

    The list of features no developer may add without a new legal review, and the process that enforces it.

    Stop list
  • Developer docs

    Issues requiring attorney review

    The open questions, blocking or otherwise, that must be closed before the pool opens. Pennsylvania's Act 7 of 2025 is first.

  • Developer docs

    All developer documentation

    Security, recordkeeping, terminology, onboarding workflow, dashboard wireframe.

The paperwork

First-pass drafts written for a mining service rather than copied from an exchange. They are for attorney review and are not in force.

  • Legal · draft

    Mining Service Disclosure

    The shortest complete statement of what the service is: mining, rewards apportioned, paid to your address, nothing held.

    Draft
  • Legal · draft

    Mining Reward and Payout Policy

    PPLNS, fee, maturity, orphans, the daily run, the threshold and why it exists, failed and withheld payouts.

    Draft
  • Legal · draft

    Terms of Service

    Contributing computation to pooled mining, rewards that depend on mining results, your address as your responsibility.

    Draft
  • Legal · draft

    Privacy Policy

    Payout addresses, worker names, share records, connection IPs, an optional email. Nothing else, and no cookies.

    Draft
  • Legal · draft

    Sanctions and Restricted Persons Policy

    A U.S. operator's OFAC obligations, the controls proportionate to what a no-KYC pool actually knows, and what happens on a match.

    Draft
  • Legal · draft

    Risk Disclosure

    No guaranteed rewards, orphans, delays, early-network attacks, no market, lost keys, regulatory change, and the cost of electricity.

    Draft

Read it

Long-form articles with the primary sources linked: mining pools and the law, payout methods, forking Bitcoin Core, difficulty algorithms, solo mining, custody.

The record

Decisions and changes, dated, with the reasoning attached.

  • Update

    The mining service, designed in the open

    Why the pool's architecture, policies and legal drafts are published before the pool exists, and what changed on this site as a result.

    Sep 2026
  • Meeting notes

    Security review and timeline, September 2026

    AI-related concerns raised, testing extended, launch window under review with 2027 the working assumption.

  • Meeting notes

    Comparison meeting, October 2025

    Spearmint set against other chains on distribution, fee treatment, governance and risk, with the open questions recorded.

  • Updates

    All updates

    The running list. Fee or methodology changes appear here with 30 days' notice.

  • Email

    Announcements by email

    Launch decisions, mining-service status, policy changes. Email only, double opt-in, unsubscribe in every message.