Do I need to register an account to mine?

Registration is not required. Just configure your miner according to our instructions and start mining. Your first submitted share will automatically register you with our pool. Good Luck!

Why is my reported hashrate zero or different from what my miner reports?

Pool and miner hashrates are re-calculated every ten minutes. Therefore it can take up to ten minutes for your hashrate to update depending on the submission time of your first valid share. The hashrate we display at the pool is a rough approximation of your hashrate based on your submitted shares and can therefore differ significantly from the hashrate displayed locally. When in doubt always consider the value displayed by your miner as the correct one.

How will I get paid?

All of our pools utilize the PPS, PPLNS, or SOLO payment system.

 

PPS

The PPS (Pay Per Share) scheme rewards miners based solely on the number of shares they submit to the pool. A share represents a unit of valid work performed by a miner toward finding a block.

Share Value: The payout per share is calculated upfront. It's primarily determined by the cryptocurrency's current network difficulty and the pool's set block reward.

Payout Guarantee: Crucially, miners receive payment for every valid share they contribute, regardless of whether the pool actually finds a block at that moment.

Pool's Risk & Predictability: The pool operator takes on the risk of variable block discovery times. They rely on the statistical predictability of block finding over time (based on the pool's total hashing power) to ensure incoming block rewards cover the consistent share payouts they make.

Key Benefits: This model provides miners with:

Highly Regular & Predictable Income: Payments are steady, not tied to the pool's luck in finding blocks. Elimination of Luck Variance: A miner's income depends only on their contributed work (shares), not on when blocks are found. Immediate Payouts: Miners are paid for their work as they submit shares, without waiting for block confirmation. In essence: PPS pays you a fixed amount for every unit of work (share) you do, immediately and predictably. The pool handles the statistical fluctuations of block discovery to make this possible.

PPLNS

PPLNS pays miners only when the pool successfully finds a block. When a block is found, the pool looks back at the most recent shares miners contributed (specifically, the last "N" shares submitted to the pool) and calculates each miner's reward based on their share of those recent contributions.

This approach deters miners from frequently switching pools (pool hopping) because they need their shares to be within the recent "N" shares when a block is found to get paid. Miners experience a delay in receiving rewards as they must wait for blocks to be found and for their shares to fall within the relevant window.

Payouts fluctuate significantly because they depend directly on the pool's actual luck in finding blocks – rewards can be much higher or lower than theoretical estimations in the short term. However, over time and on average, the total rewards miners earn under PPLNS are expected to be statistically similar to what they would earn under schemes like PPS, despite the short-term variance.

SOLO

In solo mining, individual miners work independently to solve blocks on the blockchain network. Each miner constructs their own candidate block. The primary difference between blocks created by different solo miners lies in the special reward transaction (often called the coinbase transaction). This transaction specifies the miner's personal wallet address as the recipient of the block reward. The rest of the block's content (the transactions it confirms) is generally the same for all miners attempting to create the next block.

The core process of mining remains unchanged: miners connect their hardware and monitor its performance and hashrate. However, no partial rewards accumulate. Miners only receive payment if they successfully "hit the jackpot" – meaning their hardware is the first to compute a valid hash that meets the network's current difficulty target.

Upon this successful discovery, the solo miner receives the full block reward directly to their specified wallet address, plus any transaction fees included in that block. After the lockup period, the reward goes straight to the miner.

When will I get paid?

You won't see any balance in your account until a block has been found by the pool and after the block has reached a mature status. This may take a couple hours, or days, depending on the coin and difficulty. If your balance reaches or exceeds the pool's minimum payout amount, the pool will transfer your entire balance to your wallet and reset your pending balance to zero. The minimum payout for each pool is listed in 'Stats'.

We are a small pool for the time being, and as such it may take some time to find a block. On larger pools you would see some balance earlier because they will find blocks faster, but you will get a smaller share of the reward than what you would in a smaller pool. Over time, you will earn the same amount.

Trustworthiness, reliability, support and low latency are the things you should consider when choosing a pool. By avoiding the largest pools you contribute to the network health by spreading the hash power.