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Solo mining is when a miner performs the mining operations alone without joining a pool. All mined blocks are generated to the miner’s credit.

Pooled mining “pools” all of the resources of the clients in that pool to generate the solution to a given block. When the pool solves a block, the rewards generated by that block’s solution are split and distributed between the pool participants.

Smart mining means that we can switch the hash rate to other currencies of the same algorithm at our mining pools without changing the configuration of the miner.

For example: If we found BCH’s earnings are relatively high these days when we are mining BTC, the automated intelligent system changes currency mining accordingly. Under these circumstances, you don’t have to modify the mining address and miners of each miner, you just need to choose smart mining from the top menu.

The answer would be: Always go shared!

Go SOLO only if you know what it implies, have a very substantial amount of hashpower, and you understand that you may have to wait a long time without rewards.

Before understanding these settlements, users first need to understand the profit components of the cryptocurrency. Mining profit generally consists of two parts, including the block reward for the block (current bitcoin block reward is 6.25 bitcoin) and mining fee/transaction fee. After understanding the profit components, you can understand these settlements more accurately.

Simply, PPS is a mode of payment. The miners sell the hashrate to the mining pool to obtain fixed income. The mining pool is responsible for its profits and losses. Because the mining pool bears certain risks, the mining pool fee is relatively higher in the PPS mode.

Share refers to the task answer submitted by the miners to the mining pool. Profit is calculated according to the number of shares submitted by the miners in the PPS mode.

For example, the miner’s hashrate is 1T, hashrate in the whole mining pool is 100T, the total network’s hashrate is 1000T. It is generally clear that 1 block out every 10 minutes in the Bitcoin network, and the block out reward is 6.25 BTC. The hashrate of the mining pool accounts for onetenth of the total network’s hashrate. The expected profit of the mining pool is 1.25 BTC, and the hashrate of the miners accounts for one percent of the hashrate of the mining pool. No matter whether the block out or not in the mining pool, the profit of the miners is one percent of 1.25 BTC according to the theoretical profit.

The profits will be allocated based on the number of shares miners contribute. This kind of allocation method is closely related to the block mined out. If the mining pool excavates multiple blocks in a day, the miners will have a high profit; if the mining pool is not able to mine a block during the whole day, the miner’s profit during the whole day is zero.

In the short term, the PPLNS mode has a great relationship with the pool’s luck. It should be noted that miners joining a new PPLNS mining pool will find that the profits in the first few hours are relatively low. This is because other miners have contributed a lot of shares in this mining pool.

The contribution of newly added miners is still very small, so the benefits of new miners are relatively low when paying dividends. This is because PPLNS has certain lag inertia and periodicity. And the mining profits of the newly added miners will have a certain delay.

PPS+ is a combination of two modes above, PPS and PPLNS, that is, the block reward is settled according to the PPS mode. And the mining service charge /transaction fee is settled according to the PPLNS mode. That is to say, in this mode, the miner can additionally obtain the income of part of the transaction fee based on the PPLNS payment method.

In this mode, both the block out reward and the mining service charge are settled according to the theoretical profit.

Solo means mining independently. If the block is mined out, the miner will receive all the block rewards (after deducting the mining fee for the mining pool). If there have been no blocks, there will always be no gains.

When users mine on the Minerium pool, they should pay the mining fee to the Minerium pool. When users send a transaction to others via bitcoin, they should pay a transaction fee to other workers.

Payouts are made automatically every 2 hours for balances above 0.1. For balances below 0.1 payouts are made on Sunday 19:00 UTC. The process is automatic and can’t be controlled.

The Minerium Standard Pool fee is 1%. If you mine in solo or Smart mode fee is 4%.