- For the miner address that finds a valid block accepted by Bitcoin.
- Assigned directly in the coinbase; no manual pool distribution is required.
- The finder is excluded from the 10% Community Reward of that same block.
- The 100 confirmations are a maturity waiting period required by Bitcoin.
Fair opportunity at every mining scale
The finder keeps 85%. Other eligible identities share the 10% Community Reward through a deterministic tier model that prevents one scale from automatically crowding out the others.
- For other eligible identities with accepted work in the 7-day window.
- Distribution considers valid work, tier and pool composition, not the number of workers.
- An estimate before a block is found is not a confirmed balance or guaranteed income.
- Recorded amounts enter the payout process after maturity. Minimum: 546 sats; smaller amounts remain pending.
- Stratum infrastructure and Bitcoin node.
- Hosting, monitoring, security and operational continuity.
- Public status, evidence and accounting.
- Pool development, maintenance and scaling.
- Bonus Rewards to encourage participation and pool growth.
- Continuous SHA-256 research at BTC PoW Lab.
Estimate on the current 3.125 BTC subsidy; transaction fees excluded. BTC/USD spot refreshes every 5 minutes.
How to read the homepage and My Mining
The percentage shown on each homepage tier card belongs to the whole tier. Its dollar amount per miner is only an equal-share reference: tier percentage divided by the number of eligible payout identities. It is not a payout promise.
My Mining instead shows that payout identity's current projected share. Inside its tier, allocation remains linear in valid accepted work, so an identity above the tier average may project more than the homepage reference and one below average may project less. In the same snapshot, an identity's percentage can never exceed its tier's total percentage. A temporary mismatch indicates that the two screens were generated at different instants; public estimates refresh on short independent cycles.
Seven-day participation window
After an accepted share, a payout identity remains eligible for seven rolling days. It does not need to be connected at the exact second another miner finds a block. Its Community percentage uses only valid work accepted inside that same window; reconnecting does not revive older work.
Three identity tiers
T1 · PCs and small miners is up to 2 TH/s, T2 · Medium is above 2 and up to 200 TH/s, and T3 · Large is above 200 TH/s. Classification belongs to the aggregated Bitcoin payout identity—not each worker—so splitting hardware into extra workers creates no bonus.
The live 5-minute hashrate is a responsive operational metric, not the tier classifier. Classification divides accepted work by each payout identity's own observed time: at least five minutes and, once enough history exists, up to the same seven-day window. A new miner is never diluted by older pool history; because the estimate is share-derived, short-term variance can still move an identity near a tier boundary.
Protection and a small-miner bonus
Tier multipliers are 1.60, 1.40 and 1.00. A concentration-aware exponent between 0.20 and 0.35 compresses extreme differences between tiers, while work inside each tier remains linear. This is designed to keep every active scale material without promising income or a minimum payout.
Finder exclusion and exact accounting
The finder is removed before classification and receives no Community Reward from their own block. Every final amount is rounded once with deterministic Hamilton largest remainder, assigning every distributable satoshi exactly once.
Estimates versus the final snapshot
Homepage and My Mining dollar values are indicative. They use the current subsidy, a cached BTC/USD spot price and a hypothetical block found now. Satoshis—not USD—are authoritative. The actual network-valid candidate fixes the eligible identities, finder exclusion, accepted-work weights, transaction fees and exact integer-satoshi allocation.
Advanced mathematics
W_t = Σ accepted share difficulty p_t = W_t / ΣW HHI = Σp_t² K = clamp((3·HHI − 1)/2, 0, 1) γ = 0.20 + 0.15·K S_t = M_t · W_t^γ q_t = S_t / ΣS identity weight = S_t · W_i / W_t M_small=1.60 · M_medium=1.40 · M_large=1.00
Fixed decimal precision and ROUND_HALF_EVEN precede one Hamilton satoshi pass. The snapshot stores rates, tiers, work, scores, shares, K, gamma and final allocations for independent verification.
Mining advantages do not change the reward rules
Research strategies may increase effective work only for miners that implement their exact compatibility contract. “Pool integrated” means the negotiation and delivery path exists; it does not mean stock miners automatically execute it. A strategy marked “physical hardware pending,” such as a custom ASIC datapath, produces no live filtering benefit until compatible firmware or hardware requests and consumes that work. Incompatible miners remain on the stock path.
Vardiff remains separate
Vardiff only targets a useful share cadence. It never changes Bitcoin target validation, accepted-work credit or tier multipliers.
Snapshot and maturity
A network-valid candidate locks the complete model snapshot before submission. Coinbase rewards require 100 confirmations; reorganized blocks are void.