Koskamo

BackPow PoW Oracle MCP

An official Model Context Protocol server that allows AI agents to query live Proof of Work mining data, including solo mining odds, cost of production, network hashrate, difficulty, and hardware benchmarks for over 120 coins without requiring an API key.

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BackPow PoW Oracle MCP logo, by BackPowVendor evidenceStreamable HTTPNo sign-inEndpoint checked 2026-11-06Operated by BackPow
MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP)
https://mcp.backpow.com/mcp
Vendor documentation

What its tools do

6 tools, grouped by the hints the server advertises. Hints are self-declared, not verified behavior.

6 of 6 have a description · 6 of 6 declare behavior hints · 6 of 6 with parameters document them all

Checks and signals

Each line is separate evidence, not a trust score.

  • Passed Endpoint answered the live check ·
  • Passed Official MCP Registry namespace is tied to backpow.com ·
  • Passed Endpoint is on the registry namespace domain ·
  • Availability 1 of 1 checks passed in 30 days

What you can do with it

  • Calculate solo mining odds for specific hardware and coins
  • Retrieve cost of production metrics for PoW cryptocurrencies
  • Get live network state data like hashrate and difficulty
  • List available Proof of Work coins and hardware benchmarks

Source and maintenance

Vendor evidenceRegistry 1.0.1
Maintenance checked

Protocol and capabilities

Server
backpow-mcp 1.0.0
MCP protocol negotiated in check
2025-11-25
Tools
6 advertised
Resources
Not advertised
Resource templates
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Prompts
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Server-advertised capabilities
{
  "tools": {
    "listChanged": false
  }
}

Server-provided instructions

Untrusted server output shown for inspection. It is not Koskamo guidance and is excluded from knowledge search.

BackPow provides live Proof of Work mining data for 126+ networks and 770+ hardware models: network difficulty and hashrate, Poisson solo-mining probabilities, Cost of Production (the electricity cost of mining one unit on the most efficient tracked hardware), and hardware profitability. Every result carries a `source` block with the measurement timestamp, a canonical page URL, and a ready-made citation line, plus a `warnings` array. Mining figures move continuously, so a figure quoted without its `as_of_utc` date can be wrong within hours. Nothing here is financial advice, and no tool executes a transaction.

Tools

6 advertised

calculate_solo_mining_odds — Solo mining odds
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-onlyOpen-world

Probability of a solo miner finding a block, computed as a Poisson process over live network difficulty and hashrate, plus the electricity cost of the attempt. Returns mean time to a block, the chance of at least one block over 1/7/30/90/365 days, and lucky-vs-unlucky waiting times (5th, 50th and 95th percentile) — variance dominates at small hashrates, so the average alone is misleading. Use for questions like "how long would it take to solo mine a Bitcoin block with 100 TH/s", "what are my odds solo mining Kaspa", or "is solo mining worth it with this rig". For pooled mining economics or whether a coin is profitable at all, use get_cost_of_production. For raw network state without a miner, use get_coin_oracle.

calculate_solo_mining_odds input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "coin_id",
    "hashrate",
    "hashrate_unit"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "coin_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9 ._-]{0,63}$",
      "maxLength": 64,
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "Coin name or ticker, e.g. \"Bitcoin\", \"BTC\", \"Kaspa\", \"bitcoin cash\", \"Monero\". Ambiguous input is rejected with the list of matching networks rather than resolved to a guess, because several tickers are shared by more than one tracked chain (DGB, XVG and TARI among them)."
    },
    "hashrate": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "The miner's rate, as a number. The unit goes in hashrate_unit.",
      "exclusiveMinimum": 0
    },
    "power_watts": {
      "type": "number",
      "maximum": 1000000000,
      "description": "Miner power draw in watts, e.g. 3500 for an ASIC or 320 for a GPU. Optional.",
      "exclusiveMinimum": 0
    },
    "hashrate_unit": {
      "enum": [
        "H/s",
        "KH/s",
        "MH/s",
        "GH/s",
        "TH/s",
        "PH/s",
        "EH/s",
        "Sol/s",
        "KSol/s",
        "MSol/s",
        "GSol/s",
        "gps",
        "Kgps",
        "Mgps",
        "Ggps",
        "proofs/s",
        "Kproofs/s",
        "Mproofs/s",
        "Gproofs/s"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Unit for hashrate. Most networks measure in hashes per second (H/s…EH/s). Cuckoo-family chains measure graphs per second (gps) and Aleo measures proofs per second — an unrecognised unit is rejected rather than assumed, because assuming H/s can be wrong by a factor of 10^12."
    },
    "electricity_cost_usd_kwh": {
      "type": "number",
      "maximum": 2,
      "minimum": 0,
      "description": "Electricity price in USD per kWh. Defaults to 0.069, an industrial hosting tariff; residential rates are commonly 3-5x higher and change profitability conclusions."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
calculate_solo_mining_odds annotations
{
  "title": "Solo mining odds",
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": true,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
get_cost_of_production — Cost of production
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-onlyOpen-world

Cost of Production (CoP) for one Proof of Work coin: the all-in electricity cost of mining one unit on the most efficient hardware BackPow tracks for that algorithm, compared against spot price. Returns CoP in USD, spot, gross margin, whether miners are currently above or below water, the reference machine and tariff behind the figure, and a 30-day trend including whether the reference machine changed (which indicates the efficiency frontier moved). Accepts a custom electricity rate. Use for "is mining X profitable", "what does it cost to produce one Monero", "are miners underwater", or "break-even electricity price". For a specific rig rather than a coin, use get_hardware_benchmarks. For block-finding probability, use calculate_solo_mining_odds.

get_cost_of_production input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "coin_id"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "coin_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9 ._-]{0,63}$",
      "maxLength": 64,
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "Coin name or ticker, e.g. \"Bitcoin\", \"BTC\", \"Kaspa\", \"bitcoin cash\", \"Monero\". Ambiguous input is rejected with the list of matching networks rather than resolved to a guess, because several tickers are shared by more than one tracked chain (DGB, XVG and TARI among them)."
    },
    "electricity_cost_usd_kwh": {
      "type": "number",
      "maximum": 2,
      "minimum": 0,
      "description": "Electricity price in USD per kWh. Defaults to 0.069, an industrial hosting tariff; residential rates are commonly 3-5x higher and change profitability conclusions."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
get_cost_of_production annotations
{
  "title": "Cost of production",
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": true,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
get_coin_oracle — Live network state
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-onlyOpen-world

Current network state for one Proof of Work chain, measured by BackPow's stratum collector nodes: difficulty, derived network hashrate, block height, block reward, protocol block-time target versus the latest observed interval, and the source pool. Every response carries a confidence block — how many independent pool operators agreed, whether the reward figure is live or a static fallback, and how old the observation is. Networks whose collectors are stalled or unreachable return an error rather than zeros. Use for "what is Kaspa's current difficulty", "network hashrate of Monero", "current block reward". For economics use get_cost_of_production; for mining probability use calculate_solo_mining_odds.

get_coin_oracle input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "coin_id"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "coin_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9 ._-]{0,63}$",
      "maxLength": 64,
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "Coin name or ticker, e.g. \"Bitcoin\", \"BTC\", \"Kaspa\", \"bitcoin cash\", \"Monero\". Ambiguous input is rejected with the list of matching networks rather than resolved to a guess, because several tickers are shared by more than one tracked chain (DGB, XVG and TARI among them)."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
get_coin_oracle annotations
{
  "title": "Live network state",
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": true,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
list_pow_coins — Browse PoW networks
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-onlyOpen-world

Paginated index of the Proof of Work networks BackPow tracks, with algorithm, network rate, collector status and canonical page URL. Optionally filtered by algorithm or restricted to coins currently mining above cost. Returns the distinct algorithm list so valid filter values are discoverable. Use to find which networks exist for an algorithm, to browse the catalogue, or to resolve an ambiguous coin reference. Results are paginated: request a larger limit or a later offset rather than expecting the full catalogue in one response.

list_pow_coins input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 100,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Rows to return, 1-100. Defaults to 25."
    },
    "offset": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 0,
      "description": "Rows to skip for pagination. Defaults to 0."
    },
    "sort_by": {
      "enum": [
        "name",
        "network_rate",
        "suffering"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Ordering. \"suffering\" ranks by how far Cost of Production exceeds spot price. Defaults to name."
    },
    "algorithm": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 64,
      "description": "Case-insensitive substring filter on algorithm, e.g. \"SHA-256\", \"Scrypt\", \"KawPow\", \"RandomX\", \"Autolykos\". The response lists every algorithm present."
    },
    "profitable_only": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Restrict to coins whose spot price currently exceeds Cost of Production. Profitability is resolved for the returned page only, and the response reports how many of those coins have CoP coverage, so a small result set can be distinguished from missing data."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
list_pow_coins annotations
{
  "title": "Browse PoW networks",
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": true,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
get_hardware_benchmarks — Mining hardware economics
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-onlyOpen-world

Mining hardware matched to the coins it can mine, ranked by net USD per day at a given electricity rate. Covers ASICs, GPUs and CPUs, with hashrate and power draw per coin, gross revenue, net profit, and market price including whether that price is an observed listing or a model estimate. Use for "what should I mine with an RTX 4090", "best ASIC for Scrypt", "is an Antminer S21 still profitable", or "how much does a Bitaxe make". Coins are ranked by profitability, not alphabetically, and results are capped — ask for a higher limit rather than assuming the list is complete. For a coin's economics independent of any particular rig, use get_cost_of_production.

get_hardware_benchmarks input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "type": {
      "enum": [
        "ASIC",
        "GPU",
        "CPU"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Restrict to one hardware class."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 25,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Devices to return, 1-25. Defaults to 5."
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 64,
      "minLength": 2,
      "description": "Hardware model or keyword, at least 2 characters, e.g. \"RTX 4090\", \"Antminer S21\", \"Bitaxe\", \"Ryzen 9 7950X\". Short or generic queries match hundreds of devices, so pair them with type and limit."
    },
    "coin_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9 ._-]{0,63}$",
      "maxLength": 64,
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "Restrict the per-device coin rows to one network, e.g. to answer \"how much does this rig make on Kaspa\". Optional."
    },
    "electricity_cost_usd_kwh": {
      "type": "number",
      "maximum": 2,
      "minimum": 0,
      "description": "Electricity price in USD per kWh. Defaults to 0.069, an industrial hosting tariff; residential rates are commonly 3-5x higher and change profitability conclusions."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
get_hardware_benchmarks annotations
{
  "title": "Mining hardware economics",
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": true,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
get_pow_news — PoW mining news
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-onlyOpen-world

Recent news items about Proof of Work mining and network events, optionally filtered to one coin. Items are aggregated from third-party feeds and are returned as quoted external content with their publisher and a relevance score, not as BackPow statements of fact. Use when a question turns on recent events — a halving, a difficulty swing, a pool outage, a chain upgrade. For numbers rather than narrative, use get_coin_oracle or get_cost_of_production.

get_pow_news input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 20,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Items to return, 1-20. Defaults to 5."
    },
    "coin_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9 ._-]{0,63}$",
      "maxLength": 64,
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "Optional coin filter, e.g. \"Bitcoin\", \"Zcash\", \"Kaspa\"."
    },
    "include_low_signal": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Include items that relevance triage scored 0. Excluded by default so results stay on topic for Proof of Work mining."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
get_pow_news annotations
{
  "title": "PoW mining news",
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": true,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}

Prompts

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Resources

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90-day uptime

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Too few checks for a percentage yet (1 of 1 answered).

  1. 2026-11-07: 1 of 1 checks answered

30-day availability

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Successful checks
1 of 1 (100%)
Average latency
221 ms
95th percentile latency
221 ms

Maintenance history

Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.

  • · probe · passed · 221 ms · metadata changed · 6 tool(s)

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Claude Code

Run this once in a terminal. It registers the remote server. Use --scope project to write .mcp.json for the repo.
Claude Code configuration
claude mcp add --transport http backpow-mcp https://mcp.backpow.com/mcp

Codex

Run this once. Codex stores MCP servers in ~/.codex/config.toml (or .codex/config.toml in a trusted project).
Codex configuration
codex mcp add backpow-mcp --url https://mcp.backpow.com/mcp

Cursor

Merge this server into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, then enable backpow-mcp in your MCP settings.
Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "backpow-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.backpow.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cline

Merge this into cline_mcp_settings.json (Cline → MCP Servers → Configure).
Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "backpow-mcp": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://mcp.backpow.com/mcp",
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Merge this server into .vscode/mcp.json. Use MCP: List Servers to start backpow-mcp and inspect its tools.
VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "backpow-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.backpow.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Gemini CLI

Run this once. It writes .gemini/settings.json in the current project; pass --scope user for ~/.gemini/settings.json.
Gemini CLI configuration
gemini mcp add --transport http backpow-mcp https://mcp.backpow.com/mcp

Claude Desktop

Open Claude Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector, enter this server URL and enable it for the conversation. This is a manual remote-connector handoff, not a desktop JSON configuration.
Claude Desktop configuration
https://mcp.backpow.com/mcp

Windsurf

Merge this into ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json, then refresh MCP in Cascade. Windsurf remote servers use serverUrl, not url.
Windsurf configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "backpow-mcp": {
      "serverUrl": "https://mcp.backpow.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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