Mining Pools and Payouts Articles

How long to mine one Bitcoin depends on hashrate, difficulty, fees, pool terms and luck. Learn expected output, solo odds and why no machine has a fixed timer.

Learn how mining pool latency measurement works, what it changes for miners, the money and safety risks, and the checks to make before using it.

Learn how Bitcoin block template fee audit works, what it changes for miners, the money and safety risks, and the checks to make before using it.

Learn how BetterHash mining protocol works, what it changes for miners, the money and safety risks, and the checks to make before using it.

Learn how Rootstock merged mining works, what it can earn, the costs and security checks, and how a Rootstock node can support SHA-256 miners.

Learn how Elastos merged mining node works, what it can earn, the costs and security checks, and how a Elastos node can support SHA-256 miners.

Learn how private CKPool solo mining works, what it changes for miners, the money and safety risks, and the checks to make before using it.

Learn how mining pool share difficulty works, what it changes for miners, the money and safety risks, and the checks to make before using it.

Stratum V1 explained for ASIC operators: follow subscriptions, authorisation, mining jobs, share difficulty, extranonce handling and pool control.

Learn how ASIC stale and rejected shares works, what it changes for miners, the money and safety risks, and the checks to make before using it.

Learn how original Stratum mining protocol works, what it changes for miners, the money and safety risks, and the checks to make before using it.

Learn how getblocktemplate transaction dependencies works, what it can earn, the costs and security checks, and how a Bitcoin node can support SHA-256 miners.