What is Miner Wars?

Miner Wars is a free, competitive blockchain-based game that simulates Bitcoin mining through team battles. 

The game combines real Bitcoin blockchain data with strategic gameplay mechanics to create fair and transparent outcomes.

Players unite in clans to compete for BTC rewards in clan competitions and GOMINING tokens in personal battles. 

How Miner Wars Works

The game simulates real Bitcoin mining — you and your clan participate in collective mining, building up the prize pool during the week. At the end of the week, all winners get their share of the prize pool.

As an individual, you can actively influence outcomes through strategy and special game mechanics during each round. 

What Can You Earn?

You can earn BTC through Clan battles and GOMINING tokens for personal competition victories.

How to Start Playing: 

Step 1: Log in or sign up to the GoMining ecosystem, if you’re not registered yet. 

Step 2:  Select Miner Wars in the main menu.

Step 3: You'll need either your own digital miner or a free Bonus Miner to enter the game. 

Bonus miners have some limitations in the game experience (see section below)

Step 4: You must join a Clan to start playing. You have two options:

• Public Clans — You can join these instantly
• Moderated Clans — You need to send a request and wait for approval

Types Of Players: 

Digital Miner Owners

Miners with any amount of TH/s can participate in Miner Wars, but more powerful and efficient versions strengthen your Clan's position for taking the block, influence the distribution of your rewards when you win, and increase the frequency at which you receive GOMINING tokens in personal competitions.

Bonus Miner Players

You can enter the game using our free bonus miner, but there are some limitations in the game experience, such as:

• Users with bonus miners only enter Miner Wars as Trial players
• Trial players need to complete tasks to keep their Bonus Miner running and stay in the game
• Trial players can compete for BTC rewards, but they can only be withdrawn after purchasing your own digital miner. 
• When trial players win personal battles, they receive GOMINING tokens only up to the amount spent on spells during that round. Any remaining reward is issued as play-only tokens — locked until a digital miner is purchased
• Trial users cannot create a Clan or become a Clan owner

What’s A Clan? 

A Clan is a basic game unit in Miner Wars. It consists of other players who own digital miners and combines their stats — total hash power and average energy efficiency. A clan capacity is limited to 1000 members.

You need to be a part of a clan to play Miner Wars.

You can join Public Clans immediately, but for Moderated Clans you need to send a request and wait for a clan owner’s approval. 

Some Clan owners set minimum requirements for your miners’ power and your GOMINING balance. If you don't meet these requirements, you won't be able to join or even send a request.

How to Choose a Clan

To join an existing Clan, simply review the list of available teams and choose one. There’s an “Instant Join” filter you can set for Clan List that gives you a list of all clans available to join right away.

When choosing a Clan, consider the following:

• Clan power (TH) is the primary metric to look at. It represents the total power of all Clan members combined. Higher Clan Power generally means the Clan can earn points faster and perform better in Miner Wars
• League determines the Clan’s possible reward multipliers. Higher leagues offer larger BTC payouts
• The number of participants indicates how many players are in the Clan
• Total rewards reflect the Clan’s success in past Miner Wars battles

Note that BTC rewards for winning are distributed among Clan members based on their personal miners' stats. If you join a large team while your miners have low power or poor energy efficiency, your share of the winnings may be insignificant. You need to decide for yourself which Clan suits you best. A more powerful Clan will often win, which can bring you many small rewards. Teams with a small hashrate can also win, but the chance to win here is lower. However, in case of a victory of a smaller clan, your share will be much larger, which translates to a large amount of rewards at once.

Important: Once you join a Clan, your Game mode experience officially begins and you'll stop receiving daily rewards from Mining mode.

Miner Wars Game Mechanics

Let's dive deeper into the main mechanics of the game.

Game Cycle & Rounds

Miner Wars is built around weekly Cycles and continuous game rounds:

• Each Cycle runs from Tuesday 00:00 UTC to the following Tuesday 00:00 UTC

• A cycle consists of rounds. Each round begins and ends with the closure of a real Bitcoin block on the blockchain, so round durations are unpredictable

• Winners are selected in each round, but distribution of the rewards takes place at the end of each cycle

Game Objective

Your goal is to accumulate as many points as possible during rounds. The more points you earn, the stronger your and your clan's position in personal and clan rankings.

Scoring Points are generated automatically based on your Points-per-Second Rate (PPS), which  is based on your miners': 

•  Total power 
•  Average energy efficiency (EE)

The formula used to calculate your PPS is: 

Where base EE is a fixed constant — 28 W/TH.

In simple terms, miners with higher power and better energy efficiency earn points faster, giving their owners advantage in every round.

Just like individual players, each Clan also has its own PPS — it's the combined PPS of all clan members. 

Spells and Power-Ups

To gain an advantage, players can use Spells and Power-ups — paid, time-based effects that help you earn points faster.

Available spells so far include:

Spells can be purchased in GOMINING tokens only.

Leagues

All Miner Wars gameplay takes place within Leagues — competitive divisions where both players and Clans battle for rewards. 

Leagues define the level of challenge and possible size of rewards.

There are four Leagues, ranked from elite to beginner:

• Odyssey — limited to 50 Clans
• Eclipse — limited to 50 Clans
• Horizon — limited to 50 Clans
• Dune — unlimited capacity with multiple divisions

Dune Division System

Dune operates differently from other Leagues:

• Multiple divisions of roughly 50 clans
• Each division has its own prize fund
• Divisions are reshuffled every cycle to keep competition fair

Promotion & Demotion

At the end of each weekly Cycle, Clans move up or down between Leagues depending on their performance

League Movement:

• Between Odyssey, Eclipse, and Horizon: exactly 5 Clans move up or down each Cycle
• Between Horizon and Dune: the number of promoted and demoted Clans changes each Cycle based on active Dune divisions

Round Multipliers

Each round comes with a reward multiplier, which increases the earnings accordingly, if you and your clan win the round. 

Here are all Miner Wars multipliers: x1, x2, x4, x8, x16, x32, x64, x128, and x256. 

Available multipliers depend on the League in which the round is played:

• Dune: x1 – x32
• Horizon: x1 – x64
• Eclipse: x1 – x128
• Odyssey: x1 – x256

How multipliers work:

Multipliers affect the weight of each round in the reward distribution at the end of a Cycle. Higher multipliers give you and your clan a higher share of the prize fund. For example, winning a round with an x128 multiplier counts as 128 wins in x1 rounds

You can always check the calculations for the last round using the ‘Secured by blockchain button’

Winners: Selection Algorithm

The winner selection system combines your gaming performance with real Bitcoin blockchain data to create a fair and transparent selection process.

How Clans Win

When each round ends, the game calculates scores to find the winning Clan. Here's how it works:

Step 1: Combine all clans’ scores to find the total round score 

Step 2: Use Bitcoin Blockchain for fair selection

1. Get Block Hash: The game takes the hash from the latest Bitcoin block and converts it to a decimal number.
2. Calculate Remainder: Divide this decimal number by the total score. The remainder from this division is the winning number.

Step 3: Split total round score into intervals assigned to clans and players in a random order, according to their scores

Step 4: Find Winner: The clan and the player whose interval contains this winning number win the round

You can always check the calculations for the last round using the Secured by blockchain button on the Home screen

Use this comparison table if you are not sure what mode to go with: