{"license":"CC-BY-4.0","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"ChainChoice (https://chainchoice.io)","category":"mining_pools","evidenceReadAt":"2026-09-29","generatedAt":"2026-11-12","criteria":[{"id":"payout_scheme_risk_transfer","label":"Which payout scheme — and therefore who eats a bad-luck or orphaned-block run, the pool or you?","weight":30},{"id":"payout_custody_coinbase_directness","label":"Does the coinbase transaction pay you, or does the pool hold your coin until it decides to release it?","weight":26},{"id":"fee_completeness_txfee_mev","label":"Is the headline fee the whole fee — or are transaction fees, accelerator revenue and MEV quietly retained?","weight":24},{"id":"block_template_control","label":"Who builds the block you are hashing on — and what do they leave out of it?","weight":20}],"providers":{"antpool":{"payout_scheme_risk_transfer":{"s":5,"q":"\"ANTPOOL supports four payment methods: PPS，PPLNS ，FPPS (with effect from July 13, 2020)\" | \"FPPS is full PPS. The payment distribution includes: fixed block reward (current 6.25 BTC) + package transaction fee. The actual income of FPPS is not affected by the pool's lucky.\"","u":"https://support.antpool.com/api/v2/help_center/en-us/articles/5983010227993.json","d":"2026-09-29"},"payout_custody_coinbase_directness":{"s":3,"q":"\"You agree that ANTPOOL shall not be liable to you for any losses or damages caused by such access limitation or suspension.\" | \"2.For accounts security, after updatiung the wallet address, the payment will be suspended for 3 days, and the payment will be automatically resumed after 3 days.","u":"https://www.antpool.com/js/app.eead32e1.js","d":"2026-09-29"},"fee_completeness_txfee_mev":{"s":5,"q":"\"payMethods\":[{\"payMethod\":\"PPLNS\",\"percent\":0.98,\"percentStr\":\"2%\"},{\"payMethod\":\"FPPS\",\"percent\":0.96,\"percentStr\":\"4%\"}]","u":"https://www.antpool.com/auth/v3/index/coinDetail?coinType=BTC","d":"2026-09-29"},"block_template_control":{"s":3,"q":"\"By using this service, miners will prioritize transactions, allowing them to be confirmed faster than originally.\" | \"ANTPOOL, in partnership with various mining pools, gives priority to include your transactions for swift processing whenever any collaborating pool successfully mines a block…","u":"https://www.antpool.com/js/app.eead32e1.js","d":"2026-09-29"}},"braiins_pool":{"payout_scheme_risk_transfer":{"s":9,"q":"\"The Full Pay Per Share (FPPS) model follows the rule that every unit of work (share) delivered to the pool is guaranteed a mining reward.\" | \"It is based on all the blocks mined by the whole network for the given day (UTC time), but recalculated as if the average 144 blocks had been mined.","u":"https://academy.braiins.com/en/braiins-pool/rewards-and-payouts/","d":"2026-09-29"},"payout_custody_coinbase_directness":{"s":2,"q":"\"the accounts that have not been logged into for more than a year (twelve consecutive months) are automatically considered as inactive.\"","u":"https://braiins.com/pool/terms-and-conditions-braiins-mining-limited","d":"2026-09-29"},"fee_completeness_txfee_mev":{"s":4,"q":"\"Braiins Pool currently applies the following fee to provide the pool mining service.\" | \"Proceeds from transaction (network) fees are shared with miners.\" | \"Pool fee 2.5%\"","u":"https://academy.braiins.com/en/braiins-pool/rewards-and-payouts/","d":"2026-09-29"},"block_template_control":{"s":4,"q":"\"It improves efficiency, prevents man-in-the-middle attacks, and will eventually enable miners to work on their own block templates.\"","u":"https://academy.braiins.com/en/braiins-pool/stratum-v2-manual/","d":"2026-09-29"}},"f2pool":{"payout_scheme_risk_transfer":{"s":8,"q":"\"The FPPS payout scheme calculates rewards for the mining fee based on a percentage of the total network mining fees divided by the total coinbase rewards of the past one day.\" | \"As the pool distributes the actual mining rewards, miner revenues will be affected by the luck of a pool.\"","u":"https://f2pool.zendesk.com/api/v2/help_center/en-us/articles/360061042332.json","d":"2026-09-29"},"payout_custody_coinbase_directness":{"s":3,"q":"\"we have the right to freeze all or part of the F2Pool Account (“Freeze”). When the Freeze occurs, if the User applies for the thawing of the F2Pool Account (“Thawing Application”), we have the right to determine in our sole discretion whether to thaw all or part of the F2Pool Account.\"","u":"https://www.f2pool.com/terms","d":"2026-09-29"},"fee_completeness_txfee_mev":{"s":6,"q":"Pool fee | FPPS 4% | PPLNS 2%","u":"https://f2pool.zendesk.com/api/v2/help_center/en-us/articles/360058887912.json","d":"2026-09-29"},"block_template_control":{"s":4,"q":"\"f2pool collaborates with multiple mining pools. If any of these pools produces a block, your transaction will be accelerated. There is no limit on the transaction volume or fees.\"","u":"https://www.f2pool.com/user/tx-acc","d":"2026-09-29"}},"foundry_usa":{"payout_scheme_risk_transfer":{"s":8,"q":"\"Foundry USA Pool pays out to all pool members according to the Full-Pay-Per-Share (FPPS) payout scheme.\" | \"The numerator is the sum of Transaction Fees per Block in the contract period excluding the highest 3 observations and lowest 3 observations, including empty blocks.\"","u":"https://pool-faq.foundrydigital.com/what-is-foundry-usa-pools-payout-methodology","d":"2026-09-29"},"payout_custody_coinbase_directness":{"s":4,"q":"\"As all users’ payout addresses require whitelisting for security purposes, the steps required to changing a payout address are:\" | \"Then click the “ADD” button to submit the request to the Foundry USA Pool team\"","u":"https://pool-faq.foundrydigital.com/how-can-we-change-the-payout-address","d":"2026-09-29"},"fee_completeness_txfee_mev":{"s":2,"q":"\"Foundry USA Pool™ evaluates pricing tiers every quarter based on your Group level hashrate (all subaccounts in a Group contribute to total hashrate) average in the previous quarter.\" | \"It may take up to 10 business days into a new quarter for any pricing adjustments to take effect.\"","u":"https://pool-faq.foundrydigital.com/how-is-my-pricing-tier-calculated","d":"2026-09-29"},"block_template_control":{"s":4,"q":"\"You may find our Stratum server addresses at the bottom of the \"Account Overview\" page, under \"Mining Addresses\" and \"Region\".\"","u":"https://pool-faq.foundrydigital.com/where-are-foundrys-stratum-servers-located","d":"2026-09-29"}},"luxor":{"payout_scheme_risk_transfer":{"s":9,"q":"Full Pay-Per-Share (FPPS) is a mining pool payment model that ensures miners receive consistent and predictable earnings based on their contributed hash rate. | Pools using FPPS take on the variance risk, ensuring miners receive stable daily payouts.","u":"https://docs.luxor.tech/platform/mining/revenue-payments","d":"2026-09-29"},"payout_custody_coinbase_directness":{"s":2,"q":"\"Luxor does not act as a custodian of cryptocurrency on your behalf. Any balance accrued in your Account represents an amount payable by Luxor to you and does not constitute a deposit, stored value, or custodial holding.\"","u":"https://luxor.tech/mining/mining-pool/tos","d":"2026-09-29"},"fee_completeness_txfee_mev":{"s":4,"q":"\"Enjoy 0% pool fees when mining on Luxor Bitcoin Pool—plus exclusive volume discounts for large-scale miners; contact our team today to learn more.\" | \"Yes, miners using Luxor Firmware enjoy 0% pool fees when mining with Luxor's Bitcoin Pool, further enhancing profitability.\"","u":"https://luxor.tech/mining/firmware","d":"2026-09-29"},"block_template_control":{"s":5,"q":"Bitcoin | stratum+tcp://btc.global.luxor.tech:700 | 2.50% | Our mining pool global endpoints automatically proxy your miner's TCP connection to the nearest available region","u":"https://docs.luxor.tech/platform/mining/getting-started","d":"2026-09-29"}},"ocean":{"payout_scheme_risk_transfer":{"s":9,"q":"\"TIDES is a Bitcoin mining pool payout system which reduces payout variance as low as possible without the pool operator needing to hold and buffer the Bitcoin rewards as a custodian.\" | \"share_log_window is eight times the block’s difficulty worth of shares.\"","u":"https://ocean.xyz/docs/tides","d":"2026-09-29"},"payout_custody_coinbase_directness":{"s":4,"q":"\"So rather than take custody of your expected Bitcoin earnings like many other pools, OCEAN remains non-custodial\" | \"Amounts credited to your TIDES balance that have not yet reached the on-chain payout threshold are a contingent contractual entitlement to future Payouts only; unless and until your…","u":"https://ocean.xyz/docs/terms","d":"2026-09-29"},"fee_completeness_txfee_mev":{"s":9,"q":"\"The standard fee for Services rendered is 2% of all Bitcoin network rewards and transaction fees per block found with help from OCEAN (successful “Block Reward”), less any incentives or promotional offers in effect for User at the time a block is found (“Total Fee”).\"","u":"https://ocean.xyz/docs/terms","d":"2026-09-29"},"block_template_control":{"s":8,"q":"\"allows anyone to create their own block templates using their own Bitcoin node.\" | \"DATUM is currently in public beta.\" | \"Point your miners hash to stratum+tcp://your_datum_node_ip:23334\"","u":"https://ocean.xyz/docs/datum-setup","d":"2026-09-29"}},"spiderpool":{"payout_scheme_risk_transfer":{"s":9,"q":"\"PPS Reveue = sum(share's diff / current network diff * coinbase reward)\" | \"First, collect the blocks mined across the network from the previous day, sort them by block transaction fees, and exclude the top and bottom 5% (rounded) of block records.\"","u":"https://support.spiderpool.com/fees","d":"2026-09-29"},"payout_custody_coinbase_directness":{"s":3,"q":"\"This Website may suspend or terminate your account or use of the Service, or the processing of any activities, at any time if it determines in its sole discretion that you have violated this Agreement\"","u":"https://www.spiderpool.com/p__help__term__term.e70dc027.async.js","d":"2026-09-29"},"fee_completeness_txfee_mev":{"s":7,"q":"\"The sum of these two parts represents the user's total revenue for the previous day. After multiplying by (1 - pool fee rate), this gives the actual revenue.\" | \"Daily Revenue = (PPS Revenue + Transaction Fee Revenue) * (1-Miningpool's fee rate)\"","u":"https://support.spiderpool.com/fees","d":"2026-09-29"},"block_template_control":{"s":3,"q":"\"Using a Bitcoin transaction accelerator service can speed up transaction confirmation.\" | \"The confirmation time after the transaction is accelerated, depends on the speed of block generation, affected by the difficulty of the BTC network and the proportion of the computing power of the SpiderPool…","u":"https://support.spiderpool.com/mining-pool-function/about-txaccelerator","d":"2026-09-29"}},"viabtc":{"payout_scheme_risk_transfer":{"s":9,"q":"\"ViaBTC pool supports two payment methods: PPS+ and PPLNS . The default is PPS+ . You can go to Settings to choose the method you prefer based on your risk tolerance.\"","u":"https://www.viabtc.com/en/pricing","d":"2026-09-29"},"payout_custody_coinbase_directness":{"s":4,"q":"\"This unusual situation triggered ViaBTC's risk alerts, and the rewards for this block have been temporarily frozen.\"","u":"https://support.viabtc.com/api/v2/help_center/en-us/articles/9584328699151.json","d":"2026-09-29"},"fee_completeness_txfee_mev":{"s":7,"q":"\"Mining Earnings Block Reward Transaction Fees (Variable) Payment Method PPS PPLNS Fee Rate 4% 2%\" | \"PPLNS Mode Mining Earnings Block Rewards + Transaction Fees (Variable) Fee Rate 2% Formula Your Hashrate / Pool Hashrate * Block Reward * (1 - Pool Fee)\"","u":"https://www.viabtc.com/en/pricing","d":"2026-09-29"},"block_template_control":{"s":3,"q":"\"(3) Complete: We will prioritize the submitted transactions and include them in the next block we mine.\" | \"(3) Complete: After receiving your acceleration fee, ViaBTC will notify all cooperative mining pools.\" | \"ViaBTC cooperates with many mainstream mining pools.\"","u":"https://support.viabtc.com/api/v2/help_center/en-us/articles/9704354369295.json","d":"2026-09-29"}}}}