Get Answers to The MostFrequently Asked Questions

• What is Solo Mining?

  Solo Mining means mining completely independently with your own hash power. If your miner discovers a block, you receive the entire block reward (currently 3.125 BTC until the next halving), without splitting it with anyone else.

  However, if your miner does not find a block, you earn nothing during that time-there are no partial payouts. This is why solo mining carries high risk but also the highest possible reward.

  With Minerium, solo miners can also choose our Hybrid Solo Mining option. In this model:

  • Your idle hash slices can be sold through Minerium’s BBP engine, giving you steady USD payouts to help cover electricity and operational costs.
  • Any unused slices still keep mining solo, so you always retain a chance at the full block reward.

  Whether you pick pure Solo Mining or Hybrid Solo Mining, one principle remains: We never split the difference. The reward always goes whole-either to you as the miner, or to one lucky BBP participant.

• What is Hybrid Solo Mining (Solo Hybrid)?

  Minerium offers two modes for miners: Full Solo Mining and Hybrid Solo Mining (Solo Hybrid).

  Full Solo Mining: Your entire hash power is committed to solo mining. If you find a block, you keep the entire reward. No sharing, no splitting.

  Hybrid Solo Mining (Solo Hybrid): This model blends solo mining with Minerium’s BBP (Bitcoin Block Panning) engine:

  • BBP Sales: Minerium sells your idle hash power (in time-slices) to BBP participants, generating USD payouts that can help cover your electricity and operational costs.
  • No Wasted Power: If any of your time-slices go unused or unsold, they automatically continue mining solo, keeping your block-finding chance alive.
  • Control & Flexibility: You decide how much of your hash rate goes toward BBP sales versus solo mining. By default, Minerium fills all idle time-slices for you.

  This system helps democratize Bitcoin; either you, the miner, hit the block and keep the full reward, or one lucky BBP participant gets it.

  No matter what, we never split the difference. Rewards are always whole, never diluted.

• What are PPS, PPLNS, PPS+, FPPS, Solo?

  When talking about mining pool payment methods, it helps to first understand that mining profit has two parts:

  1. Block Reward: currently 3.125 BTC per Bitcoin block (until the next halving).
  2. Transaction Fees: the additional fees included in each block’s transactions.

  Now, here’s how the different settlement methods work:

  • PPS (Pay Per Share): You get paid a fixed amount for every valid share you submit, no matter if a block is actually found. This reduces risk but also lowers upside, since rewards are averaged out across all miners.
  • PPLNS (Pay Per Last N Shares): Rewards are based on the number of shares you contributed within the last N window of shares once a block is found. This means your payout depends on luck and timing as well as your share contribution.
  • PPS+: Similar to PPS for block rewards, but also includes transaction fees shared proportionally among miners.
  • FPPS (Full Pay Per Share): Combines PPS with a fixed share of average transaction fees. Payments are predictable and steady, but diluted across all contributors.
  • Solo: Unlike the pooled models above, solo mining means you are on your own. If your miner finds a block, you get the full block reward (and transaction fees) for yourself. If not, you get nothing.

  With Minerium’s Solo & Hybrid Solo model, we extend the Solo concept further:

  1. Full Solo Mining: You keep 100% of the reward when your machine finds a block.
  2. Hybrid Solo Mining: Our BBP engine can sell your idle hash slices to participants (for USD payouts), while any unsold slices keep mining solo-giving you both steady income and a chance at a full block reward.

  Unlike PPS, PPLNS, or FPPS, we never split the difference. Rewards always go whole-either to the miner or to one lucky BBP participant.