# pow.family

Every PoW project. One page: tested quick-start guides, live mining economics with all
three fee layers (pool + miner dev fee + hardware cost), pool comparison, hardware
benchmarks, where to sell, and who to follow — with a source and fetch time on every
number. Built for humans first, agents welcome.

## Endpoints

- / — PoW radar: price ticker, anomaly panel, rental snapshot, all-projects table
- /projects — full table view: sortable, filterable (all / gpu / cpu networks), search
- /projects/{slug} — full project page (SSR, no JS required for content):
  overview stats, about, insights/thesis, quick-start, 3-layer economics,
  tokenomics, pools, hardware & miners, exchanges, reference material, follow-list, risks
- /api/coins — JSON: registry + latest live fields for every project (legacy path kept)
- /api/coins/{slug} — JSON: full curated entry + latest live fields + recent raw snapshots
- /insights — pow.family long-form research (evidence-first, numbered sources; image-figure
  blocks supported) — newest: /insights/pq-signatures-not-mining (Shor vs Grover, the NIST
  toolbox, three migration architectures, October 2026 ecosystem state)
- /insights/{slug} — full article: /insights/soq-meme-coin-heritage (SOQ's pump.fun origin,
  the SOQMIG1 burn migration, and the 57% early-float structure — 18 primary citations)
- /learn — the PoW academy: 46 lessons in a newbie-ordered track path
  (Foundations → Pools → Bitcoin mining → Hardware → Energy & costs → Operations → Tokenomics → Advanced → Reference)
- /learn/{slug} — Foundations: what-is-mining, mining-algorithms, mining-difficulty, understanding-hashrate,
  mine-or-buy · Pools: pool-vs-solo-mining, how-pools-work-shares, stratum-basics, pool-effort-and-luck,
  payout-schemes-pps-prop-pplns, stale-shares-and-latency, network-versus-share-difficulty, choosing-a-pool ·
  Bitcoin mining: bitcoin-block-rewards, bitcoin-difficulty-retarget, bitcoin-halving-planning,
  bitcoin-miner-versus-node, bitcoin-transaction-confirmations, bitcoin-payout-address-safety ·
  Hardware: asic-gpu-cpu-mining, algorithm-compatibility, read-miner-specifications,
  first-miner-decision-checklist, used-miner-buying-guide, profit-estimates-and-sensitivity ·
  Energy & costs: mining-electricity-costs, read-electricity-tariffs, time-of-use-rates,
  mining-demand-charges, miner-efficiency, measure-miner-power, site-electrical-review, cooling-and-heat,
  uptime-and-availability · Operations: mining-budget-checklist, home-installation-safety,
  airflow-and-temperature, monitoring-and-restarts, securing-the-operation, reconcile-pool-payouts,
  rejected-shares-troubleshooting · Tokenomics: emission-schedules, tail-emission-and-dilution,
  auditing-supply-claims · Advanced: merged-mining-auxpow · Reference: mining-glossary
- /tools — mining calculators: live-data tools, all math client-side
- /tools/profitability — coins/day × live price − kWh − pool fee: net/day, network share, price floor
- /tools/electricity — W × h × $/kWh with uptime and two-tariff compare
- /tools/breakeven — upfront ÷ net payback with ±40% sensitivity grid
- /tools/compatibility — filter tracked networks by hardware class (GPU/CPU/both) + algorithm
- /coins/* — permanent redirects to /projects/*

## Projects

Projects are being re-curated and published one at a time (hidden coins carry the `_`
filename prefix in content/coins/ and return the moment it is removed).

- soq — SOQ · Scrypt + AuxPoW · post-quantum ML-DSA-44 launch, pump.fun heritage
  (SOQMIG1 burn migration, block-1 allocation audited) — /projects/soq + research:
  /insights/soq-meme-coin-heritage
- dragonx — DRGX · RandomX CPU · zk-SNARKs z2z privacy (Hush Arrakis chain), 21M cap,
  first halving 3→1.5 derived ≈2026-12-11 — /projects/dragonx + research:
  /insights/dragonx-first-halving
- mds — MDS · BLAKE3-sequential · hash-only post-quantum (WOTS+/MSS, no ECC), interview-verified
  architecture — /projects/mds + /insights/midstate-minimum-trust
- noid — NOID · Poseidon2b · proof-native PQ (verify without replay), perpetual 1-NOID tail
  emission correction — /projects/noid + /insights/paranoid-verification-thesis
- tsc — TSC · proof-of-inference · teacher-forced verification that caught a real fp8 cheat on
  mainnet — /projects/tsc
- prl — PRL · NoisyGEMM matmul PoW · the usefulness gap measured (arXiv study: zero AI inference
  in 8,012 workers) — /projects/prl + /insights/pearl-usefulness-gap
- tari — XTM · 4-lane RandomX/SHA3x/Cuckaroo mining + L2 Ootle, 30% premine with VC unlock live — /projects/tari
- keryx — KRX · Proof-of-Model BlockDAG (VRAM+bandwidth mining, kaspa lineage) — heavy
  emission + 25% burn accounting trap documented — /projects/keryx
- xelis — XELIS · from-scratch BlockDAG L1, Twisted ElGamal homomorphic state, Kalman
  difficulty control, fair launch 2024 — /projects/xelis
- pirate — ARRR · Equihash + dPoW notarization (Komodo->Bitcoin) · 100% mandatory
  shielded (zk-SNARKs Sapling), anonymity set = whole chain — /projects/pirate
- firo — FIRO · Lelantus Spark (no trusted setup) · survived a deliberate 51%-as-delisting-
  pressure attack + hostile seed investor — /projects/firo
- salvium — SAL · Monero fork, Asynchronous Transactions = programmable privacy with
  compliance posture (heavy launch inflation documented) — /projects/salvium
- kerrigan — KRGN · Dash+Sapling, Hivemind BLS reputation anti-reorg layer — priced down
  by 80% reward diversion + sub-$50K governance capture — /projects/kerrigan
- qubic — QUBIC · computor quorum + Aigarth useful-PoW, the Monero-2025 economic-security
  case study, now Dogecoin merge-mining — /projects/qubic
- nonos — NOX · Layer-0 privacy OS (Rust microkernel, dual Ed25519+ML-DSA per capsule) —
  token deliberately just the economic layer — /projects/nonos
- zano — ZANO · ProgPoWZ+Zarcanum hybrid, Confidential Assets with asset-type indistinguishability — /projects/zano

## Conventions

- Every live number carries provenance: {field, source, fetched_at} in /api responses;
  on pages, hover the small source tags (LP=luckypool, CG=CoinGecko, xp=xplorer, cur=curated).
- Benchmarks: source=verified (we ran it), submitted (community), reference (third-party).
- Quick-start blocks state the hardware and date they were verified on; "NOT RUN"
  means configuration only — never treat it as tested.
- Rental margins assume vast on-demand $8.30/day (4090) unless stated otherwise.