Terms of service
Terms governing use of the public BTC PoW Lab mining service.
Operator and jurisdiction
BTC PoW Lab Pool is a service operated by Power CM Software, a business established in Germany. Contact: contact@btcpowlab.com. These terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, without prejudice to mandatory consumer protections that may apply in a user's country of residence.
Service
BTC PoW Lab Pool provides Bitcoin mining coordination through Stratum V1. Availability is not guaranteed and maintenance or upstream Bitcoin network conditions may interrupt service.
Rewards and authoritative record
Mining is probabilistic. Submitted work does not guarantee that a block will be found or that any reward will result. Dashboard values, screenshots and USD conversions are non-binding projections. If the pool finds a network-valid block, the immutable candidate snapshot—identified by its snapshot hash—is the authoritative record of eligible payout identities, finder exclusion, accepted normalized work, tier, bonus eligibility and exact integer-satoshi amounts.
Maturity and payment
A block and its entitlements remain immature until 100 confirmations and become void if the block is orphaned. Payment timing depends on reconciliation, transaction construction, Bitcoin network fees, dust and minimum-output rules, and operational security review. Fees necessary to broadcast a Community distribution may be allocated under the published payout policy; no USD amount is owed. Automatic Community payout broadcasting is currently disabled until the documented public-release controls are completed. A recorded entitlement is not marked paid without a reconciled Bitcoin transaction ID.
Continuity, outages and recovery
The service may enter maintenance or become unavailable because of host, network, Bitcoin Core or upstream failures. The operator may recover from a verified backup and reconcile durable snapshots against Bitcoin Core. No estimate is recreated from a screenshot, browser cache or memory when durable evidence is unavailable.
Evidence and disputes
A miner disputing a reward should contact us with the block height or hash, payout address and relevant timestamp. The pool may request address-ownership proof without ever requesting a private key or seed phrase. Resolution uses the versioned rules, immutable snapshot, proof bundle, state-event journal and reconciled transaction evidence. Screenshots are useful context but do not override those records.
Miner responsibilities
Miners must provide a valid Bitcoin address they control and configure compatible equipment lawfully. No custodial account, investment product or promised financial return is offered.
Changes
Material economic changes require explicit operational controls and public disclosure before they affect mining rewards. They are not retroactive to an already frozen snapshot.
Version
Effective 3 September 2026. Terms version 2026-09-03. The economics rules version applicable to a block is embedded in its snapshot and proof bundle.