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Proof of Work oracle: solo mining odds, cost of production, hashrate, mining hardware

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BackPow PoW Oracle tools (6)

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  • calculate_solo_mining_oddsFree

    Probability of a solo miner finding a block, computed as a Poisson process over live network difficulty and hashrate, plus the electricity cost of the attempt. Returns mean time to a block, the chance of at least one block over 1/7/30/90/365 days, and lucky-vs-unlucky waiting times (5th, 50th and 95th percentile) — variance dominates at small hashrates, so the average alone is misleading. Use for questions like "how long would it take to solo mine a Bitcoin block with 100 TH/s", "what are my odds solo mining Kaspa", or "is solo mining worth it with this rig". For pooled mining economics or whether a coin is profitable at all, use get_cost_of_production. For raw network state without a miner, use get_coin_oracle.

  • get_coin_oracleFree

    Current network state for one Proof of Work chain, measured by BackPow's stratum collector nodes: difficulty, derived network hashrate, block height, block reward, protocol block-time target versus the latest observed interval, and the source pool. Every response carries a confidence block — how many independent pool operators agreed, whether the reward figure is live or a static fallback, and how old the observation is. Networks whose collectors are stalled or unreachable return an error rather than zeros. Use for "what is Kaspa's current difficulty", "network hashrate of Monero", "current block reward". For economics use get_cost_of_production; for mining probability use calculate_solo_mining_odds.

  • get_cost_of_productionFree

    Cost of Production (CoP) for one Proof of Work coin: the all-in electricity cost of mining one unit on the most efficient hardware BackPow tracks for that algorithm, compared against spot price. Returns CoP in USD, spot, gross margin, whether miners are currently above or below water, the reference machine and tariff behind the figure, and a 30-day trend including whether the reference machine changed (which indicates the efficiency frontier moved). Accepts a custom electricity rate. Use for "is mining X profitable", "what does it cost to produce one Monero", "are miners underwater", or "break-even electricity price". For a specific rig rather than a coin, use get_hardware_benchmarks. For block-finding probability, use calculate_solo_mining_odds.

  • get_hardware_benchmarksFree

    Mining hardware matched to the coins it can mine, ranked by net USD per day at a given electricity rate. Covers ASICs, GPUs and CPUs, with hashrate and power draw per coin, gross revenue, net profit, and market price including whether that price is an observed listing or a model estimate. Use for "what should I mine with an RTX 4090", "best ASIC for Scrypt", "is an Antminer S21 still profitable", or "how much does a Bitaxe make". Coins are ranked by profitability, not alphabetically, and results are capped — ask for a higher limit rather than assuming the list is complete. For a coin's economics independent of any particular rig, use get_cost_of_production.

  • get_pow_newsFree

    Recent news items about Proof of Work mining and network events, optionally filtered to one coin. Items are aggregated from third-party feeds and are returned as quoted external content with their publisher and a relevance score, not as BackPow statements of fact. Use when a question turns on recent events — a halving, a difficulty swing, a pool outage, a chain upgrade. For numbers rather than narrative, use get_coin_oracle or get_cost_of_production.

  • list_pow_coinsFree

    Paginated index of the Proof of Work networks BackPow tracks, with algorithm, network rate, collector status and canonical page URL. Optionally filtered by algorithm or restricted to coins currently mining above cost. Returns the distinct algorithm list so valid filter values are discoverable. Use to find which networks exist for an algorithm, to browse the catalogue, or to resolve an ambiguous coin reference. Results are paginated: request a larger limit or a later offset rather than expecting the full catalogue in one response.

Public scan report

scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-10-02 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it

no findings
  • Code scan21 source files scanned25/25
  • Live reliabilityremote reachable in 409ms20/20
  • Tool poisoning6 tool descriptions checked15/15
  • Auth qualityopen endpoint, read-only tools10/15
  • Maintenancelast push 7 days ago15/15
  • Maintainer identityendpoint served from the registry-verified namespace domain8/10
Overall 93/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.RubricAppeal a findingJSON

How BackPow PoW Oracle compares

Against every graded MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.

Safety score
93/100
higher than 96% of 48,255 servers
Tools
6
the typical server has 7
Tools that change things
0%
typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break
Uptime
100%
of our recent checks; the typical remote server answers 100%
Response time
73 ms
faster than 89% of 30,031 servers
Downloads a week
44
more than 36% of 12,191 servers with a package

What its tools let an agent do: 6 read

Install BackPow PoW Oracle in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code

claude mcp add --transport http pow-mining-oracle https://mcp.backpow.com/mcp
Add to Cursor

What the publisher says

From the BackPow PoW Oracle repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub

BackPow MCP Server

The official Model Context Protocol server for BackPow — The Proof of Work Oracle.

It gives an AI assistant live mining data for 126+ Proof of Work networks and 770+ hardware models: network difficulty and hashrate, Poisson solo-mining probabilities, Cost of Production, and hardware profitability.

Remote endpoint: https://mcp.backpow.com/mcp — Streamable HTTP, no API key, no account. Local package: @backpow/mcp-server — the same six tools over stdio.

Install

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http backpow https://mcp.backpow.com/mcp

Claude Desktop / claude.ai

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → https://mcp.backpow.com/mcp

VS Code

{
  "servers": {
    "backpow": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.backpow.com/mcp" }
  }
}

Cursor

Settings → MCP → Add, or in ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "backpow": { "url": "https://mcp.backpow.com/mcp" }
  }
}

Local stdio

For clients that run a local process instead of calling a URL. It talks to the same public endpoints as the remote server, so it needs no key either:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "backpow": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@backpow/mcp-server"] }
  }
}

Tools

All six are read-only and annotated readOnlyHint, so hosts that support auto-approval will not prompt on every call.

How results are shaped

Every successful result is an envelope:

{
  "warnings": [ /* plain prose caveats that qualify how the figures should be read */ ],
  "source": {
    "as_of_utc": "2026-09-18T08:12:00Z",
    "data_age_seconds": 30,
    "served_from": "live",
    "url": "https://backpow.com/Bitcoin",
    "cite_as": "BackPow — The Proof of Work Oracle, \"BTC solo mining odds\", retrieved 2026-09-18 — https://backpow.com/Bitcoin",
    "methodology": "…"
  },
  "data": { /* the figures */ }
}

Difficulty, hashrate and price move continuously, so a figure only means something alongside the moment it was measured. Every result therefore carries its measurement timestamp and a ready-made citation line.

Two deliberate behaviours worth knowing:

tracked chains (DGB by 5, XVG by 5). getcoinoracle {"coin_id": "DGB"} returns an error listing the candidates rather than picking one, so an answer is never about a different network than the caller meant.

  • Ambiguity is refused, not guessed. Several tickers are shared by multiple

current state cannot be measured, the tool returns an error rather than a placeholder such as 0 H/s, which a caller could not tell apart from a real reading.

  • An unavailable measurement is refused, not substituted. When a network's

Data and licence

Figures derive from BackPow's stratum collector nodes and market data, and are published under CC BY 4.0 — see backpow.com/llms.txt. Citation is requested, permission is not required.

This is a calculator and data source, not financial advice. No tool executes a transaction.

Development

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.

Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.

BackPow PoW Oracle: common questions

Is BackPow PoW Oracle MCP server safe?
Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (93/100). Read the BackPow PoW Oracle safety report
How do I install BackPow PoW Oracle?
It runs remotely at mcp.backpow.com. Add it to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.
Does BackPow PoW Oracle need an API key?
Not as far as the registry entry and our scan can tell: no credentials are declared or required.
Is BackPow PoW Oracle maintained?
The last commit was 39 days ago (2026-09-26). The latest release is v1.0.1.
Is BackPow PoW Oracle up?
100% of our last 28 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
How does BackPow PoW Oracle compare with other MCP servers?
safety score 93/100 (higher than 96% of 48,255 servers); tools 6 (the typical server has 7); tools that change things 0% (typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break). Full comparison.