Start mining Bitcoin at home Small machines, honest expectations
All you need is a mining device, a Bitcoin wallet and an email address. A small device earns very little, so treat it as a way to learn.
Illustration The desk is an example of a home setup, not a product Melanin sells.
Data Bitcoin’s record, to scale
The layers are Bitcoin’s reward eras, to scale: each gold vein is half the one below it. The base layer began in 2009; the thin top layer is the era still being laid.
What you need
- A mining device
- A small Bitcoin miner, or Melanin Click on a phone, Pi or laptop. Your dashboard shows which ones work.
- A Bitcoin wallet
- Any wallet you control. We need its address, never its keys.
- An email address
- For your six-digit sign-in code.
What actually happens
- Your device does the work
- It uses electricity to solve a puzzle with no shortcut. That work secures Bitcoin, and the network pays for it. How mining works →
- The pool shares the odds
- Many miners search together. Rewards follow recorded work and the pool’s allocation rules; no block is guaranteed.
- You keep your keys
- Check transaction outputs and wallet receipts; any carried entitlement is separate. Never share your keys or seed phrase.
What a small device earns
Your share follows your work. A phone or small home miner does very little of the pool’s work, so its share is tiny and payments can be far apart. Start to learn, not to earn.
How to start
Verify your email
Use the code sent to your inbox.
Add your wallet
Save your payout address and register your device.
Start mining
Use your account’s settings. Check reported work, then verify rewards separately.
Before you start
Keep your keys private. Check reward records against actual transaction outputs and wallet receipts.