Password arguments

Supported password arguments:

Static Difficulty

Only set static difficulty when your miner isn't submitting any shares, or when using proxied hashrate. In any other scenario the pool software retargets your diff periodically in a soft way which is considered best practice.

You can set a static share difficulty for your miner using the d= flag. Example: d=16382 sets a static share difficulty of 16382.

• Values lower than the default port difficulty are applied immediately on connect.
• Values higher than the port difficulty are applied after a few minutes of mining.
• For Nicehash / MiningRigRentals, flag the mining-server for custom settings with d=nicehash or d=mrr.
• If no value is provided, the pool will automatically manage your difficulty so the miner submits a share every ~5 seconds.

Worker names

Worker names can be assigned in two ways:

1. Preferred. Append the worker name to your username separated by a dot:
   --user username.superworker
2. Password argument using n=:
   --user username --pass "n=superworker"

Tell us where your earnings go. By default each coin is paid out to its own wallet address. Auto-conversion is optional if you'd rather receive payouts in a different currency.

1. Unlock your wallets. Press the UnLock button below your wallet list, then enter the OTP code we email you to confirm. Your wallets are now editable.
2. Set a payout address per coin. Paste your private wallet address next to each currency you want to receive.
3. Set the AP Threshold. The minimum balance before we send a payout.

Optional

Auto-conversion

If you'd rather receive payouts in a different currency than the coin you're mining, set up auto-conversion. Two approaches to pick between.

Source coins get converted, not paid out. Don't try to forge a BTC address into a LTC wallet. It won't work. The wallet field for an auto-converted coin is ignored.

Lazy

Choose up to 10 target coins. All earnings convert into them proportionally, automatically.

Manual

Per-coin drop-down, or use set all above your wallets. No address needed on source coins, they're converted not paid.

The difficulty and net hashrate shown on the Pool Overview won't match what most other pools or multiports report. That's intentional.

Most multiports read difficulty straight from the wallet or blockchain, which is the difficulty of the last block that was found. That's not what you want while you're mining. You want the difficulty of the block you're working on right now.

We calculate that current difficulty directly and derive net hashrate from it. The multiport switches coins based on those live numbers, so it moves the moment a coin becomes profitable, not after the next block confirms.

• Switches in real time. The moment a coin becomes more profitable, the multiport moves.
• No confirmation lag. Profit-switching is immediate, not reactive.
• Daily curation. Underperforming coins are removed from the rotation.

Every pool supports every reward mode. Payouts run every 15 minutes after a transaction confirms.

Default fees are flat and depend on the mode you're using. Per-coin exceptions are listed in the pool-fee table further down. Click any mode to jump to its explainer.

Pool fee exceptions  ·  per coin

Currency

Algorithm

D-PPS

PROP

PPLNS

SOLO

PARTY

BCH

Sha256

2.00 %

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BCH2

Sha256

2.00 %

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·

·

·

BTC

Sha256

2.00 %

1.50 %

1.50 %

1.00 %

1.50 %

LC2

Scrypt

1.90 %

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·

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QUAI

Sha256

·

2.50 %

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·

2.50 %

QUAI_SCRYPT

Scrypt

·

2.50 %

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·

2.50 %

SPACE

Sha256

2.00 %

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·

·

·

All other

1.50 %

1.00 %

1.00 %

0.50 %

1.00 %

On withdrawal  ·  network cost passed on

Currency

Algorithm

Transaction cost

ARRR

Equihash

0.00100000 ARRR

BCH

Sha256

0.00000300 BCH

BSV

Sha256

0.00000300 BSV

BTC

Sha256

0.00005000 BTC

DASH

X11

0.00001000 DASH

KMD

Equihash

0.00100000 KMD

LTC

Scrypt

0.00001000 LTC

ONION

X13

0.00001000 ONION

QUAI

Sha256

0.10000000 QUAI

QUAI_SCRYPT

Scrypt

0.10000000 QUAI_SCRYPT

XMR

Randomx

0.00004500 XMR

XVG

Scrypt

0.10000000 XVG

ZCL

Equihash_gpu

0.00010000 ZCL

ZEC

Equihash

0.00100000 ZEC

ZER

Equihash_gpu

0.00010000 ZER

all others

Gratis

Merged mining runs automatically alongside the coin you're already mining, on compatible algorithms. It costs nothing extra and can't be turned off (there's no reason to).

Merged blocks always pay using the finder's mining mode:

• SOLO finders keep the entire merged block.
• PROP and A-PROP finders split the merged block by the proportional scheme.
• PPLNS finders split the merged block over the PPLNS share window.
• PARTY finders split the merged block among the party members.
• D-PPS miners are paid for merged coins through the D-PPS share rate. There's no separate reward for finding the block itself.

Pay-Per-Share (PPS) gives you an instant, flat payout for every accepted share, regardless of whether the pool actually finds a block in that round.

Think of it as the lottery. You buy a ticket and the pool guarantees your statistical share of the prize. Submit 1 share out of 10? You're paid as if you won 10% of the block. Every time, win or lose.

The pool absorbs all the variance. Long-term you average out to the statistical mean; short-term you skip the streaks of bad luck. The trade-off is that the pool takes on the risk, which is why PPS pools usually charge a higher fee than PROP pools.

Dynamic PPS is our improvement on standard PPS. Vanilla PPS values each share at the difficulty at payout time (or a rolling average). Our D-PPS values each share at the exact difficulty and coinbase reward it was submitted on.

• Every share is paid at its true value. You always mine on 100% luck.
• Profit-switching while on PPS. Most pools force you onto PROP for multiport. D-PPS is the only flat-payout mode that supports real-time switching.
• Merged coins included. Every share you submit gets credit, whether it was also valid on a merged chain or not.

Solo mining means you mine for yourself, not for the pool. Find the block, keep the entire reward. Don't find it, earn nothing for that round.

Same lottery analogy as PPS, but flipped. You buy a single ticket. If it wins, the whole jackpot is yours. If it doesn't, you walk away with nothing.

Proportional (PROP) pays only when the pool finds a block. No block, no payout. Your share of the block matches your share of the work for that round.

Worked example:

• A block is found after 100,000 shares.
• You submitted 1,000 of them, so 1% of the round's hashrate.
• The block pays 200 FTC. You get 1% = 2 FTC.

The math holds regardless of round length. Lucky round (50,000 shares, you submitted 500)? Still 1%, still 2 FTC. Unlucky round (200,000 shares, you submitted 2,000)? Same again, 1%, 2 FTC. Your payout always tracks your % contribution to the round.

Variance lands on the miners, not the pool. Over time it averages out, but individual rounds swing both ways.

Merged coins follow the same scheme. A PROP finder splits the merged block proportionally.

Aggregated Proportional (A-PROP) is a variant of PROP. Instead of paying out the moment each block is found, A-PROP collects shares across several blocks and pays the combined total on a rolling cycle.

Payouts run roughly every 15 minutes, give or take depending on pool luck. The benefit: variance gets smoothed out across rounds, so individual unlucky blocks don't sting as hard as they would on plain PROP.

Merged coins follow the same aggregation. A-PROP finders split merged blocks across the same window.

Pay Per Last N Shares (PPLNS) pays only when the pool finds a block, similar to PROP. The difference is the share window: PPLNS averages over the last 10 blocks instead of paying purely on the current round.

The pool calculates what an average round should have been and pays based on that window:

• Fast block (50% effort). The pool pulls in older shares from previous rounds to fill the window up to the 100% average. You get paid for older shares you might otherwise have lost.
• Slow block (200% effort). Only your most recent ~50% of submitted shares are paid (matching the 100% average window). Older shares in the current round are ignored.

PPLNS rewards miners who stick around and discourages hopping. Variance still lands on the miners. Bad pool luck means lower payouts, good luck means higher.

Merged coins follow the same window. PPLNS finders split merged blocks across the same N-share range.

Party mining lets you and a group of trusted miners pool your hashrate together while staying outside the main pool. Everyone using the same party password (the "party ID") is in your party.

When anyone in the party finds a block, the reward is split among party members proportionally to the shares each one contributed during that round. It's solo-like in spirit (your party against the rest of the pool) but stronger together. A single party member doesn't have to find a block alone to earn.

Party blocks pay out as PROP among members sharing the same ID. Merged coins follow the same rule.

Currency Conversion lets you mine any coin and receive payouts in a different currency. Enable it from your Wallets page.

1. You mine as usual. Coins are credited to your account on the source coin.
2. Once those coins reach confirmed status, conversion kicks in.
3. The pool sells the confirmed credits on the exchange. The price they sell at is the value used for your conversion.
4. Your transactions change from Credit to Converted, and the combined value is credited back as a single Converted Credit.
5. Converted credits pay out the same as any other coin once your AP threshold is met.

You can review every credit and conversion on the Transactions page.

• Will coins I mined before enabling conversion also get converted?
  A: Yes. Once enabled, all confirmed coins (including older balances) are converted.
• My coins are confirmed but they're not being converted. Why?
  A: The pool has to sell coins on the exchange before it can convert them. Most exchanges enforce a minimum transaction size, so we need to accumulate enough balance first. Conversion happens once that threshold is reached.
• What does "Conversion disabled by pool" mean?
  A: Sometimes exchanges put a wallet offline or into maintenance while keeping the market open. If we can't deposit your coins, we can't sell them, and we can't convert them. Conversion resumes automatically once the wallet is back online.
• When do I get my converted coins paid out?
  A: Same as any other coin. As soon as your balance exceeds the AP threshold set in your wallet, payout happens on the next cycle.

Workers

The number of workers currently digging on the pool.

Pool Speed

The total pool hashrate currently digging on the pool.

Calc. Netspeed

The amount of hashrate needed to find blocks on time, given the expected block time and current difficulty.

Not the actual network hashrate. It's calculated to show your chances of finding a block.

Difficulty

The current difficulty of the next block. May differ from the pool dashboard or a block explorer.

Wait until a block is found and you'll see it match this number. We use this difficulty for multiport and profitability calculations.

BTC / (Mhs · Ghs · Ths)

Your expected profit, calculated from current difficulty, network speed, block reward and coin price.

Progress

Shares processed for the current block at the current difficulty. 100% is the expected amount of shares needed to solve the block.

Status

Status of the pool and its stratums.

• Online: pool is active and mining is open.
• Maintenance: stratum is closed, but withdrawals might still be possible.
• Offline: pool is fully closed. No mining or withdrawals.

Coin / Set

The configured coin or coin-set for this worker on this algorithm.

Mining

The coin and mode the worker is currently mining on.

Algorithm

The algorithm the worker is mining on.

Hashrate

Average hashrate over the past 12.5 minutes.

Shares p/s

Share submission rate (shares per second) over the past 12.5 minutes.

Optimal range is 0.08 to 0.30 S/s. A higher share rate does not mean better earnings.

diff.

Average share difficulty over the past 12.5 minutes.

• Increase difficulty: fewer shares per second.
• Decrease difficulty: more shares per second.

Profitability

Current BTC earned per Mhs / Ghs / Ths per day.

LS

Seconds since the last share was received by the pool.

Miner / Group

Select a miner or miner-group to change settings for.

Coin / Set

Select a coin or coin-set to switch your miner(s) to.

Mode

• Pooled: standard pooled mining. Your miner contributes to the pool's collective hashrate and earns its share of every block any pooled miner finds.
• Solo: blocks your miner finds pay 100% to you. Blocks from other miners give you nothing.
• Party: same as solo, but share earnings with friends or other rigs using your party password.

Solo and Party are at your own risk. If you're not sure what you're doing, stick with Pooled.

Party Pass

Your unique password to share with friends or rigs. Anyone mining with this password joins your party.

Schema

• Profitability: auto-switch between coins in your coin-set, always picking the most profitable one.
• Rotation: cycle through your coin-set alphabetically (A, B, C, ..., Z).

Margin

• Profitability schema: only switch when another coin becomes this percentage more profitable than the current one.
• Rotation schema: move from one coin to the next after this many minutes.

Coin-Set

Create your own set of coins to use in miner settings.

Miner-Group

Group multiple miners together so you can control them with a single settings change. Useful for large fleets.

• When will I get paid?
  A: Payouts run every 15 minutes for every currency.
• How does the pool determine my payouts?
  A: Payouts are calculated from the reward mode you choose (D-PPS, PROP, PPLNS, SOLO or PARTY) and your share contribution to the round. See the mode-explained sections above for details on each scheme.
• The Terms of Service (4.3) says my coins will be truncated after 6 months. Does that apply to coins with Currency Conversion enabled but not yet converted?
  A: No. If you have Currency Conversion enabled, we take responsibility for the balance. We will not truncate it and we will convert the coins as soon as we can.

  If no exchange is available for a long time (we are not an exchange ourselves and have no control over markets), we recommend disabling conversion and storing those coins in your local wallet until an exchange becomes available again.

• How long does it take before I can withdraw my coins?
  A: Coins from a found block are not available immediately. They need to be confirmed by the network. Most coins require 140 confirmations: the network (not the pool) has to find 140 additional blocks on top of yours. The exact number per coin is shown under each pool's Statistics » Blocks page.
• What is an Orphan Block?
  A: Orphaned (or detached) blocks are valid blocks that are not part of the main chain. They occur naturally when two miners produce blocks at nearly the same time, or in rare cases when an attacker with enough hashpower attempts to reverse transactions.
• What is estimated payout?
  A: Your projected payout if a block were found at that moment, calculated from the shares you have submitted in the current round.
• What is a share?
  A: Finding a full block can take a long time, so the work is broken into smaller pieces called shares. Each accepted share is verified by the coin's daemon and counts toward your payout.

  • Any single share could potentially solve the whole block. Estimates of shares-per-block can be exceeded both ways, but average out over time.
  • Shares are not blocks. They are pieces of work that count toward block payouts.
  • Rejected shares can happen if a share is submitted just after a block was found (it is now outdated). Stratum avoids this most of the time, but occasional rejects are normal.
  • If rejects are constant and your hashrate is not climbing, something is wrong on your end. Stop your miner and check your settings.
• I am having problems connecting to the pool.
  A: Double-check your settings against our getting started page. If the problem persists, open a support ticket from the Support page.
• My hashrate is not showing on the pool.
  A: Nine times out of ten the issue is the worker name. Double-check it for missing capitals or typos. Also make sure your miner shows accepted shares in its console: if there are no accepted shares, the pool will not show any hashrate. In that case the pool difficulty may be too high for your miner.

  You can check what difficulty is being used per port on the getting started page. You can also set it manually via your miner's password field, e.g. d=128.