BackPoW

BackPoW is a free, independent data site for Proof‑of‑Work mining. It tracks over 117 networks and 856 mining devices, providing real‑time cost‑of‑production, solo mining odds, hardware profitability, and solo pool information. All data is available via a public JSON API and an MCP server for AI assistants. Figures are refreshed daily and derived from live network difficulty and hardware benchmarks. The service is run by a single individual and offers no financial advice.

BackPoW publishes 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Coin Oracle API, Coins API, Cost Of Production API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Cryptocurrency, Mining, Proof of Work, and Data.

The BackPoW catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

BackPoW’s developer surface includes API reference, getting-started guide, support, and 18 more developer resources.

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33.1/100 thin Agent 30/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
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AccessOpen

1 published contract 1 MCP Servers 1 Agent Skills

Cryptocurrency Mining Proof of Work Data

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-02 · rubric v0.26.0

Composite quality — 33.1/100 · thin

Contract Quality 9.8 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 6.4 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 4.8 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.3 / 15

Agent readiness — 30/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 8 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 21.1 — up to +15.8 composite points
Contract Quality scores 46.3 — up to +13.4 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 0.0 — up to +13.0 composite points

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Standards implemented 3

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Agent2Agent

measured — observed by APIs.io (conformant)

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 6

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

BackPoW Coin Oracle API

The Coin Oracle API from BackPoW — 1 operation(s) for coin oracle.

BackPoW Coins API

The Coins API from BackPoW — 1 operation(s) for coins.

BackPoW Cost Of Production API

The Cost Of Production API from BackPoW — 1 operation(s) for cost of production.

BackPoW Hardware API

The Hardware API from BackPoW — 1 operation(s) for hardware.

BackPoW News API

The News API from BackPoW — 1 operation(s) for news.

BackPoW Solo Mining Odds API

The Solo Mining Odds API from BackPoW — 1 operation(s) for solo mining odds.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

BackPoW MCP Server

Remote MCP server at mcp.backpow.com.

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 1

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

backpow-com-mcp

AGENT SKILL

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Backpow Com Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Backpow Com Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

BackPoW API Rules

42 rules · 40 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Backpow Com Openapi Overlay

0 actions · update

UNRECORDED

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Backpow Com Authentication

0 schemes

SECURITY

Backpow Com Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Backpow Com Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Backpow Com Agentic Access

6 operations

6 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

SDKs

SDKs

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

AgentCard

AgentCard

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: backpow-com
name: BackPoW
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: true
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Open access
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-02'
  method: derived
image: https://backpow.com/og/home.png
description: BackPoW is a free, independent data site for Proof‑of‑Work mining. It tracks over 117 networks and 856 mining
  devices, providing real‑time cost‑of‑production, solo mining odds, hardware profitability, and solo pool information. All
  data is available via a public JSON API and an MCP server for AI assistants. Figures are refreshed daily and derived from
  live network difficulty and hardware benchmarks. The service is run by a single individual and offers no financial advice.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/backpow-com/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:mcp-registry
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-02 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-02'
modified: '2026-11-02'
tags:
- Cryptocurrency
- Mining
- Proof of Work
- Data
tags_raw:
- Cryptocurrency
- Mining
- Proof-of-Work
- Data
- API
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/backpow-com-agentic-access.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/backpow-com-rules.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/backpow-com-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/backpow-com-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/backpow-com-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/backpow-com-llms.txt
- type: AgentCard
  url: a2a/backpow-com-a2a.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/backpow-com-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/backpow-com-mcp.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/backpow-com-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/backpow-com-vendors.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/backpow-com-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/backpow-com-packages.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/backpow-com-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://backpow.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://backpow.com/api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://backpow.com/about
- type: Support
  url: https://backpow.com/contact
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://backpow.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://backpow.com/privacy
apis:
- aid: backpow-com:backpow-com-coin-oracle-api
  name: BackPoW Coin Oracle API
  description: The Coin Oracle API from BackPoW — 1 operation(s) for coin oracle.
  humanURL: https://backpow.com/api
  baseURL: https://mcp.backpow.com
  tags:
  - Coin Oracle
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/backpow-com-coin-oracle-api-openapi.yml
- aid: backpow-com:backpow-com-coins-api
  name: BackPoW Coins API
  description: The Coins API from BackPoW — 1 operation(s) for coins.
  humanURL: https://backpow.com/api
  baseURL: https://mcp.backpow.com
  tags:
  - Coins
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/backpow-com-coins-api-openapi.yml
- aid: backpow-com:backpow-com-cost-of-production-api
  name: BackPoW Cost Of Production API
  description: The Cost Of Production API from BackPoW — 1 operation(s) for cost of production.
  humanURL: https://backpow.com/api
  baseURL: https://mcp.backpow.com
  tags:
  - Cost Of Production
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/backpow-com-cost-of-production-api-openapi.yml
- aid: backpow-com:backpow-com-hardware-api
  name: BackPoW Hardware API
  description: The Hardware API from BackPoW — 1 operation(s) for hardware.
  humanURL: https://backpow.com/api
  baseURL: https://mcp.backpow.com
  tags:
  - Hardware
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/backpow-com-hardware-api-openapi.yml
- aid: backpow-com:backpow-com-news-api
  name: BackPoW News API
  description: The News API from BackPoW — 1 operation(s) for news.
  humanURL: https://backpow.com/api
  baseURL: https://mcp.backpow.com
  tags:
  - News
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/backpow-com-news-api-openapi.yml
- aid: backpow-com:backpow-com-solo-mining-odds-api
  name: BackPoW Solo Mining Odds API
  description: The Solo Mining Odds API from BackPoW — 1 operation(s) for solo mining odds.
  humanURL: https://backpow.com/api
  baseURL: https://mcp.backpow.com
  tags:
  - Solo Mining Odds
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/backpow-com-solo-mining-odds-api-openapi.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-02'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 34
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=oss,contract=oss,surfaces=oss,docs=oss,regulatory=oss

BackPoW API — frequently asked questions

Does BackPoW have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from BackPoW, including BackPoW Coin Oracle API, BackPoW Coins API and BackPoW Cost Of Production API, and 3 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the BackPoW API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 6 OpenAPI specifications for BackPoW, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the BackPoW API?

BackPoW documents its authentication (0 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Backpow Com Authentication.

Does BackPoW have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for BackPoW: Remote MCP server at mcp.backpow.com.

Is the BackPoW API ready for AI agents?

BackPoW has a Kin Score of 33.1 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 30.4 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-02.

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