MINING DEMO

educational in-browser SHA-256 PoW · NOT connected to any chain

⚠ READ BEFORE YOU MISTAKE THIS FOR A REAL MINER

This page mines nothing of value. There is no chain, no reward, no payout.
Hashing happens in your browser via the crypto.subtle Web API. JS SHA-256 sustains ~10²–10⁴ H/s. A real ASIC sustains ~10¹⁴ H/s. That's a factor of ~10¹⁰ difference.
If Liqua's L1 ever ships (see /spec.html), it will use RandomX — not SHA-256. SHA-256 was picked here because it's in the browser already, not because it's the right algorithm.
A real mining pool has Stratum servers, share validation, payout systems, monitoring — none of that exists here.
This page exists to show what PoW actually is: find a nonce such that SHA-256(input ‖ nonce) starts with N zero bits. That's it. The drama happens when N is large.

HASHRATE

H/s

ATTEMPTS

total hashes

ELAPSED

0.0s

since start

BLOCKS FOUND

this session

CELLS

— each cell is a batch of 256 async hashes

▶ CONTROLSpick block content + difficulty · press MINE

BLOCK CONTENT

DIFFICULTY

16 bits ≈ 65,536 tries expected

BATCH SIZE

crypto.subtle digests per Promise.all flush

▶ CURRENT WORKidle

LAST HASH TRIED

—

nonce: — · input: —

★ BEST HASH FOUND THIS SESSION (most leading zeros)

— start mining to see —

nonce: — · leading zero bits: —

▶ BLOCKS FOUND0 · this session

#	hash	nonce	difficulty	attempts	time
— mine your first block —

▶ HOW SLOW IS THIS, REALLY?live comparison vs real hardware

YOU (this tab)

0 H/s

avg laptop CPU (xmrig RandomX)

~3 kH/s

GPU (RTX 4090, KawPow)

~60 MH/s

Bitmain S19 XP (SHA-256 ASIC)

~140 TH/s

Bars are on a log scale (real ratio is closer to 10¹⁰× between you and the ASIC). The point: browser-mining a real coin is economically pointless. The reason Liqua's spec picks RandomX isn't that it's "fast" — it's that ASICs aren't economical to build for it, so a laptop CPU is still competitive.

⌬ Molecular framing. Each cell indicator above is a worker batch — a "cell" running its metabolic program (SHA-256). When you press MINE they pulse amber to show they're active. When one finds a hash with enough leading zero bits, the cell flashes green — that's a successful "gene expression". The hashrate is your collective cellular metabolic rate. This is exactly the metaphor the chain spec (§5) extends to RandomX: every hash is a cell, the dataset is the nucleus, validation is the immune response. SHA-256 here is just the educational stand-in.