QuaiAxe: set up a miner

QuaiAxe lets a miner choose how much of each reward is used to buy and permanently burn the QAXE token, and how much comes back to their own wallet. The config generator at quaiaxe.com/mining turns your choices into four settings to paste into your miner.

Who it's for: someone who already owns, or is willing to run, mining hardware. You'll need: a Bitaxe, SHA-256 ASIC, Scrypt miner or GPU (KawPoW), and a Quai Cyprus-1 wallet address if you keep any share.

#Steps

1. Open quaiaxe.com/mining. The Live/not-live header tag reflects configuration presence, not pool health. If address derivation is not live, the page keeps the not-live state and does not invent an address.
2. Miner type. Pick the chip matching your device: Bitaxe, SHA-256 ASIC, Scrypt or GPU / KawPoW. Bitaxe is selected initially; the page does not detect hardware. This selection chooses the algorithm and generated settings.
3. Burn share. Pick a preset or drag the slider (10% to 100%). Nothing is picked for you: you choose how much burns. The readout shows "burns / to you". The rows beside it show, per 100 QUAI mined, what Buys $QAXE, then destroys it, what is Sent to your wallet, the Maintenance & treasury fee and the Gas refund.
4. Payout wallet. Appears when you keep any share. Paste your address (0x00…, 42 characters, Cyprus-1).
5. Nickname. 2 to 20 characters: letters, numbers, underscore or hyphen.
6. Before you continue. Read the warnings and fee list, tick the consent box, then press Show my mining address. The address and worker string stay hidden until the burn choice, required payout, nickname and consent are valid.
7. Paste the generated values into your miner. The page uses the canonical repository builder and shows four fields with Copy buttons: Stratum Host, Port, User, Password. In Bitaxe's AxeOS, put host and port in their own fields. The user looks like <address>.QAXE_<nickname>; the payout address comes before the first dot and the rest is a worker label. Once rewards have unlocked (~14 days), you can also collect your deposit address yourself with Collect my mining (gas refunded) below the settings: your wallet pays the gas and the vault refunds it. For Password, type x exactly: it turns on StratumX's automatic difficulty, and StratumX refuses the connection without it. Check the last six address characters on your miner's screen.

Use the host and port generated by the selected endpoint and algorithm; do not paste a static sample over the page's personalized output. The repository's tested preset is source behavior, not a live endpoint probe or a guarantee that a given device or miner release is compatible. For current algorithm families and address guidance, see Quai's mining overview and its StratumX guide.

#What the burn/keep split means

Of every reward, a fixed 0.5% fee is taken first. Of the rest, your burn share buys QAXE, which is destroyed so total supply shrinks. The remainder goes to your payout wallet. Extra costs on the burned part: a gas refund of at most 3% (paid to whoever runs the collection) and the pool's 1% trading fee on the buy. Your kept share pays only the 0.5% fee. At least 10% always burns.

This is one-way. The burned part cannot come back. Technical detail: QaxeBurnVault.

#Rewards take about 14 days

Quai locks every mining reward for about 14 days, so nothing arrives before then. A wrong setup looks the same as a working one for two weeks, which is why the next check matters.

#Check that your rig is seen

1. Go to the Is my rig working? section on the same page.
2. Paste your address or full worker name into Payout address or full worker name.
3. Press Check the chain.

"Seen N workshare(s) for this payout address in the recent blocks" means only that the pasted address appeared as a recent workshare coinbase. The worker suffix is deliberately discarded, so this result cannot identify the current device, nickname, endpoint, accepted share from that device or payout. "No recent workshare was found for this payout address" means only that none was found in the bounded block window. "Could not reach the chain" says nothing about the setup; retry. To see where burned QAXE ends up, use the supply tracker.

#Common mistakes

• Wrong address format. It must start 0x00 and be 42 characters. The page flags a wrong zone or a typo (bad checksum). Re-copy it.
• Host and port pasted together. AxeOS wants a bare host name and the port separately.
• Unverified pool. Use StratumX solo or your own node unless you have verified another path.
• Expecting instant payment. Shares show in minutes; QUAI takes about 14 days.
• Treating generated settings as proof. A valid worker string does not prove endpoint reachability or that your exact device/software is supported. See Miner configuration evidence for the source/test boundary.

#Next

• QuaiAxe overview
• Trade QAXE and read the supply tracker
• Deposit factory