⚔️ Miner Wars: two changes are live today

We are preparing the ground for the new league structure. Two things changed right now:

👥 A 50-member cap on joining a clan. The cap is soft: nobody is removed and clans already above 50 keep everyone. If a member leaves a clan that sits above 50, they cannot rejoin until it drops back under the cap.

🔁 One clan join returned to every player who has used one. The yearly allowance stays at 6, resetting on January 1. The new structure may make some of you want to move, so you get the room to do it.

Everything else runs as usual: rounds, scoring, PPS, spells, boosts, league pools, and your daily BTC mining rewards are untouched.

The new league structure comes later, and we will announce the date in advance.

Here is what it will look like: https://gomining.com/blog/miner-wars-update-the-new-league-structure?utm_source=smm_telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mw_update_21092026

Try Miner Wars now: https://join.gomining.com/sJcv/dr9ac2ib

⚡ Which Bitcoin mining pool should you actually join?

Shorter answer than most expect: ten pools now find over 90% of all blocks, so your pool choice barely moves how much BTC you earn. What it moves is the shape of your payments, when you get paid, who holds your coins, and how much goes to on-chain fees.

The real decision is the payout model:

• FPPS, steady income, the pool absorbs the luck
• PPLNS, lowest fees, but you carry the swings

We compared the 10 biggest pools of 2026 on fees, payouts and custody 👇

https://gomining.com/blog/best-bitcoin-mining-pools-in-2026-fees-payouts-and-which-one-fits-your-setup?utm_source=smm_telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=best_btc_mining_pools_22092026

🏆 #MinerWars Cycle 161 Digest

Cycle 161 closed — 1024 rounds per league · ~$1.55M paid out.

💰 Pool: 13.285 BTC ($1,138,453) + 1,051,645 GOMINING ($408,669).

🆕 New clan, biggest reward.
samjack310 entered MW for the first time and walked away with ~0.030 BTC + 2,211 GOMINING — top new-clan haul this cycle.

🎯 Most efficient caster.
PrzyCinek cast 1 spell for 3.15 GOMINING and took an x4 in Odyssey at block #967,554 — earned ~1,194 GOMINING from that round. A 379x return on the spell cast in it.

⚡ Lowest probability win.
🦧BongoJungo🦧 won an x16 round at block #967,207 in Dune-7 — 0.00074% chance (1 in 134,000) — the lowest-probability win of the cycle.

🧪 Spell completionists (all 14 spell variants):
Dumbotisse · BRIGHTSTAR* · DarkWolf🐺 · System Slop

85 new clans created this cycle.

⚡ Honest guide to mining Bitcoin in 2026.

No setup, home or digital, escapes the two things that move rewards most: rising network difficulty and a falling BTC price.

And anyone promising fixed daily returns is the one to avoid. We wrote the guide minus the folklore.

https://gomining.com/blog/how-to-mine-bitcoin-a-beginners-guide

⏳ The VIP Referral Raffle ends soon

There’s still time to add more tickets before the draw.

Every $50 your referrals spend on miner purchases or power upgrades earns you 1 raffle ticket.

🎟️ More tickets = more chances
⛏️ 200 × 4 TH miners up for grabs
🏆 One person can win multiple miners

Already taking part? Keep building your ticket count while there’s still time.

Haven’t joined yet? Tap Take part — eligible referral purchases made since the raffle began will still count.

👉 https://app.gomining.com/raffle/1a457879-4cff-4a44-b6d6-fceb317c87b4?utm_source=smm_telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=reminder_2_27092026

⚔️ Miner Wars: the new league structure goes live next week

GoMiners, the biggest change to Miner Wars since launch arrives on October 6, and the race for your place in it starts tomorrow. The cycle that begins tomorrow is the last one under the current structure, and where your clan finishes decides which league it starts in.

🏛️ A much wider ladder

There are 390 places above Dune instead of 150. Odyssey has 1 league, Eclipse 3, Horizon 9 and Dune 27 divisions, with 30 clans in every league above Dune. For almost every clan, the next tier is finally within reach.

⏫ Three up, nine down

The top 3 clans of every league move up each cycle and the bottom 9 move down, so 117 clans get promoted every cycle instead of a handful. Nobody drops out of Dune. League caps stay x256 / x128 / x64 / x32.

🏁 Every place counts this cycle

Clans are placed once, by their final result this cycle, and the promotion zones count. The higher you finish, the higher you start. With the tiers much wider, a strong finish this week can put your clan a full tier above where it plays today. Placement happens only once, so there is no second chance to set your starting point.

👥 Already live

The 50-member cap on joining a clan and one returned clan join for every player went live last week. If you want to switch clans before the new structure, you still have room to do it.

🎲 Round multiplier odds

Round multiplier odds starting tomorrow:

- Odyssey → x1: 60.82% · x2: 23.84% · x4: 9.34% · x8: 3.66% · x16: 1.44% · x32: 0.56% · x64: 0.22% · x128: 0.09% · x256: 0.03%
- Eclipse → x1: 60.02% · x2: 24.02% · x4: 9.61% · x8: 3.85% · x16: 1.54% · x32: 0.62% · x64: 0.25% · x128: 0.10%
- Horizon → x1: 58.76% · x2: 24.31% · x4: 10.05% · x8: 4.16% · x16: 1.72% · x32: 0.71% · x64: 0.29%
- Dune → x1: 56.62% · x2: 24.79% · x4: 10.85% · x8: 4.75% · x16: 2.08% · x32: 0.91%

Rounds, scoring, PPS, spells, boosts and your daily BTC mining rewards work exactly as before.

Make this cycle count. Thanks for helping us keep Miner Wars competitive and fun for everyone ⚔️

🏆 #MinerWars Cycle 162 Digest

Cycle 162 closed — 986 rounds per league · ~$1.50M paid out.

💰 Pool: 12.540 BTC ($1,040,332) + 1,225,476 GOMINING ($457,347).

🆕 New clan, biggest reward.
777 entered MW for the first time and walked away with ~0.033 BTC + 1,007 GOMINING — top new-clan haul this cycle.

🎯 Most efficient caster.
꧁❦❀五極寒梅❀❦꧂ cast 1 spell for 1 GOMINING and took an x2 in Odyssey at block #968,550 — earned ~718 GOMINING from that round. A 718x return on the spell cast in it.

⚡ Lowest probability win.
A player won an x16 round at block #968,553 in Dune 7 — 0.00068% chance (1 in 146,000) — the lowest-probability win of the cycle.

🧪 Spell completionists (all 14 spell variants):
Thom · 🃏🔥Baby Dan🔥🃏 · 👊Godfather👊 · DarkWolf🐺 · In Pigs We Trust 👑

95 new clans created this cycle.

📊 Every reward, broken down

If you've ever looked at a daily reward and wondered how that number was reached, this release is for you.

Open any payout and go into the breakdown for each of your miners. Every line shows the formula and the numbers behind it:

⚡️ Electricity, priced off kilowatt-hours and your miner's efficiency

🛠 Service fee, with your discount as its own figure: VIP level, paying maintenance in GOMINING, and the Service button

📈 Reinvestment: where the reward went (BTC, GOMINING or TH) and which bonus applied. If it didn't reinvest because the amount was below the minimum, the payout now says so

💭 Zero days: when maintenance would have exceeded the reward, reward protection holds you at zero rather than negative. The screen says that plainly now, and the bug that displayed those zeros incorrectly is fixed

Above all of it, a summary by month, year and all time, with Mining and Miner Wars counted separately. On My Miners, each miner shows the BTC price at which it covers its own costs, colour-coded against the current price. That point moves with difficulty and with your discount, so read it as where you stand today.

The economics are unchanged. Same formula, same fee, same reward.

Round-by-round Miner Wars detail comes next.

Read more 👉 https://btc.gomining.com/ZNbqoY9

📊Earn accounts vs staking vs yield farming: which one to choose?

There are 3 ways to put idle crypto to work, and each one pays you for carrying a different risk. Once you see which risk it is, the rate on the screen gets much easier to judge.

💎 Earn accounts. A platform holds your coins and does the work for you. It’s the simplest option, which is exactly why the platform’s financial health matters as much as its rate.

⛓️ Staking. You help secure a blockchain network with your assets, and the protocol pays you in its own token. Access varies a lot.

👨‍🌾 Yield farming. You supply tokens to DeFi protocols and keep your own keys. You get the most control, along with exposure to smart contract bugs and price swings.

We broke all 3 options down, and put them against each other in the table: https://btc.gomining.com/wX9kco9

🎉 The VIP Referral Raffle results are in

First, the important part: 61 prize miners haven't been claimed yet. If you won, claim yours before October 31, 23:59 UTC. After that, the prize is gone.
👉 https://app.gomining.com/raffle/1a457879-4cff-4a44-b6d6-fceb317c87b4?utm_source=smm_telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vip_raffle_results_02102026

How September went:

400+ referrers took part and collected almost 25,000 tickets
Their friends bought almost $1.25M in miners and upgrades
77 winners shared 200 miners of 4 TH each, so one in five participants won
14 winners were Gold II, a level that couldn't join in August

A few highlights:
🏆 The most active referrer held 8% of all tickets and won 20 miners, 80 TH in total
😅 One participant held 298 tickets and won nothing. The next one's for you.
🎟 One winner had just 2 tickets and still took a 4 TH miner home
📈 One Platinum I referrer had 93 tickets and was expected to win less than one miner. They won four.

Big referrers won a lot, and small ones won too.

Next week we're back with a new contest, and it's a big one. Stay tuned 👀

The GOMINING token’s price crossed $0.40 today 🚀

The token’s main value lies in the utility it has within the GoMining ecosystem:

⭐ Lower maintenance costs. Pay maintenance for your Digital Miners in GOMINING and save up to 20% compared with other payment methods.

⭐ Lock GOMINING to get veGOMINING votes. The longer the lock, the more votes you get. Every week, 20% of newly minted GOMINING goes to vote holders, shared by voting power. Locks in the in-app wallet have zero network fees, and rewards land in your wallet automatically.

⭐ A say in the ecosystem. veGOMINING holders vote on two things: how the ecosystem rewards share is split between extra maintenance discounts, the Miner Wars prize fund and power upgrades for The Greedy Machines collection, and the re-minting ratio that sets how fast the supply burns.

⭐ VIP progress. Your veGOMINING counts toward VIP status alongside hashrate, whichever threshold you reach first, with votes from your Ethereum wallets and your GoMining wallet combined.

⭐ Marketplace and Miner Wars. Buy Digital Miners, avatars and merch with GOMINING, and spend it on boosts to push your score up the clan standings.

⭐ The burn. GOMINING spent on maintenance is burned on-chain daily. Every Tuesday a portion is re-minted at the ratio holders voted on, and the difference is destroyed for good.

Learn more about the GOMINING token’s utility here: https://gomining.com/token?utm_source=smm_telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=token_utility_05102026

Tokenomics in full: https://btc.gomining.com/cUFzZGr

⚡ GoBTC Pay backed a hackathon for the future of payments

AI agents are starting to buy things for us, and soon they'll pay each other for services too. Those payments are tiny, constant and cross-border, which is exactly what Bitcoin handles well and what card networks handle badly.

GoBTC Pay, built by GoMining, joined Agnic.AI's Agentic Commerce Pioneers hackathon as a Diamond Sponsor, with a dedicated track and a seat on the judging panel. Teams shipped working prototypes on the protocol over ten days, settled directly on the Bitcoin base layer, free for the payer. It closed with Demo Day in Toronto.

The reason GoMining can do this: the mining operation and the data centres already exist, so the payment rails are built on infrastructure we run rather than something rented for the occasion.

Read more about the hackathon here: https://techbullion.com/gobtc-pay-backs-agnic-ai-hackathon-to-pioneer-native-bitcoin-payments-for-autonomous-agents/

🧠 The quiz is back

GoMiners, you asked for it since Bounty days.

Wednesday, October 7, 17:00 UTC, in the @gomining_talking.

How it works:

• Three questions about GoMining, one after another, as quiz polls.

• Get all three right and you qualify. The first three to qualify win 5 GOMINING tokens each.

• One answer per question, no changing it. A wrong click knocks you out, so read before you tap.

• Nobody gets all three right? One extra question decides it. Still nobody, the prize rolls over to next week's quiz.

See you Wednesday. Set a reminder ⏰

🏆 #MinerWars Cycle 163 Digest

Cycle 163 closed — 1031 rounds per league · ~$1.62M paid out.

💰 Pool: 12.616 BTC ($1,079,891) + 1,341,334 GOMINING ($539,887).

🆕 New clan, biggest reward.
PIGNATION entered MW for the first time and walked away with ~0.037 BTC + 1,972 GOMINING — top new-clan haul this cycle.

🎯 Most efficient caster.
Timtim007🔫 cast 4 spells for 4 GOMINING and took an x8 in Odyssey at block #969,407 — earned ~3,166 GOMINING from that round. A 791x return on the spells cast in it.

⚡ Lowest probability win.
Cookiemonster won an x16 round at block #969,978 in Dune 7 — 0.00069% chance (1 in 145,000) — the lowest-probability win of the cycle.

🧪 Spell completionists (all 14 spell variants):
▄︻テ 🅱️LOCK 🅱️USTA حكـ━一💥💥💥 · FabioG

102 new clans created this cycle.

⏰ The quiz starts in 30 minutes! Get ready and join us in the chat: @gomining_talking

⚔️ Miner Wars: Clan Power-up gets stronger from the 2nd activation

GoMiners, starting October 13, Clan Power-up grows much faster. The coefficient now goes up from the 2nd activation in your clan, not the 5th, so even a few clanmates casting together give everyone a real boost.

New coefficients by activations in the clan per round: 1 = x1.0, 2 = x1.3, 3-4 = x1.6, 5-9 = x2.0, 10-19 = x2.5, 20-34 = x3.0, 35-50 = x3.5. For example, 5 activations used to give x1.3, now they give x2.0. A clan can use up to 50 activations per round.

Each player still has 1 Clan Power-up per round, and the price is calculated the same way as before.

Coordinate with your clan: every activation now counts for everyone.

Top 5 questions of the week from community 👾

GoMiners, here are the 5 questions you asked most in Talk and Discord last week, answered.

1️⃣ Since the update I can't see my daily breakdown after fees. Where did it go?

How rewards are calculated didn't change, only the screen. Tap any reward and open the breakdown for each miner: electricity, the service fee with your discount shown separately, and reinvestment. Each miner's break-even BTC price is now on My Miners.

2️⃣ What does the W/TH number (12W, 15W, 20W) actually mean?

It's how many watts a miner uses per terahash. The lower the number, the lower your daily electricity fee, so more of each reward stays with you. You can upgrade a miner you already own: Mining Farm → your miner → Upgrade → Energy efficiency.

👉 More: https://docs.gomining.com/en/product/miners/energy-efficiency

3️⃣ Does my maintenance discount reset if I miss a day paying in GOMINING?

No. The discount, up to 20%, only applies while you pay maintenance in GOMINING, and its size depends on how many days your wallet balance plus your locked GOMINING can cover. On a day your balance can't cover, maintenance is paid in BTC without the discount. Top up, and the discount follows your coverage again. VIP level and the daily Service button add more on top.

👉 More: https://docs.gomining.com/en/product/miners/maintenance-fees-and-discounts

4️⃣ I'm new to GoMining. What should I do first?

Start with the free Bonus Miner in your Mining Farm: it mines real BTC, and you can withdraw it once you create your own miner. Then pick how you earn: solo pays every day, a Miner Wars clan pays once a week. Do KYC in your profile early, you'll need it to withdraw.

👉 More: https://academy.gomining.com/articles/how-to-start-earning-with-gomining

5️⃣ What time do Miner Wars rewards arrive?

The cycle closes on Tuesday at 00:00 UTC, and rewards are credited to your wallet automatically later that day. No claim button. While your farm is in a clan, it earns in Miner Wars only, so there's no separate daily reward until you leave the clan.

👉 More: https://docs.gomining.com/en/product/miners/rewards

⛏ 17,500,000 TH/s

That's the mining power the GoMining community now runs between us. Roughly 17.5 exahash, which puts this community among the larger Bitcoin mining operations on the network.

None of it came from one place. It's hundreds of thousands of people each holding a digital miner, pooled into real machines in professional data centres, mining Bitcoin every day.

You can check the number yourself. The Data Centers page shows live hashrate with links straight through to the independent mining pools where it's reported: https://gomining.com/mining-pool

Thank you for building it.