BCMonster

BCMonster (bcmonster.com) — miner / “validator” profile

BCMonster (BCMonster.com) is best documented as a small Bitcoin (SHA-256) mining pool that coordinated miners’ hashpower and distributed rewards using PPLNS (Pay-Per-Last-N-Shares), with a publicly advertised ~0.5% pool fee and a coinbase signature reported as /BCMonster/. (bitco.in)

What “miner-validator” means here

In Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work model, miners are the entities that effectively “validate” and extend the chain by finding blocks under consensus rules; a mining pool like BCMonster acts as a coordinator that aggregates miners’ work and submits candidate blocks. (This is distinct from Proof-of-Stake “validators.”) (bitco.in)

Historical footprint (verifiable claims)

• Launched: listed as 2016-01-13 in the Bitcoin Wiki’s mining-pool comparison, and later placed under “Defunct Pools” (historical record of a now-closed pool). (en.bitcoin.it)
• Pool details (as advertised in 2016): PPLNS payouts, ~0.5% fee, Stratum endpoint information, and the /BCMonster/ coinbase tag were published in a 2016 forum announcement thread. (bitco.in)
• Third-party directory traces: BCMonster persists in some pool listings/databases as a pool brand with fees commonly described in the 0.5%–1% range (these are secondary summaries, not authoritative operational proof). (wheretomine.io)

Current status (as of 2026-03-06)

The bcmonster.com site itself was not reachable in this check (timeouts), and a related notice indicates “The website has been stopped” (also observed on gbrminer.com, which appeared in search results in connection with the stopped site message). This strongly suggests BCMonster is inactive/defunct as an online pool endpoint at present. (gbrminer.com)