The pool
How a pool of pools pays
A pool on its own is paid only when it finds a block. Pooling across pools turns that into a reward on every one.
- Your hashrate joinsYou contribute hashrate under your username. It counts from the block you join on.
- The network mines a blockWhoever finds it, the pool reads what that block paid and how hard it was to mine.
- Your share is creditedYour part of that block lands in your balance. Then the next block, and the one after.