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- Bitcoin Mining Pools
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- Official website
- luxor.tech
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Scored 65 out of 100 under methodology 2026.10.18, from the evidence read in September 2026.
Luxor Mining Pool
FPPS Bitcoin mining pool in the US
Bitcoin Mining Pools
#5 Overall
Ranked #5 of 8 Bitcoin mining pools in the published ranking
65
ChainChoice Score
The ChainChoice Score, shown against 100: published scores run from 41 to 99.- High evidence confidence
- $300 your cost/yr
Is Luxor Mining Pool right for you?
Right for you if these matter most
- Which payout scheme — and therefore who eats a bad-luck or orphaned-block run, the pool or you?9/10, the category best
Look elsewhere if these come first
- Does the coinbase transaction pay you, or does the pool hold your coin until it decides to release it?2/10 here; Foundry USA Pool scores 4
- Is the headline fee the whole fee — or are transaction fees, accelerator revenue and MEV quietly retained?4/10 here; F2Pool scores 6
- Who builds the block you are hashing on — and what do they leave out of it?5/10 here; the category best is 8
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What will Luxor Mining Pool cost you?
$300 your cost/yr
- Your monthly mining revenue
- $1k
- Pool fee
- 2.5%
How safe is Luxor Mining Pool?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read September 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
Alternatives to Luxor Mining Pool
Compare all 4- 4F2Pool2 points above · stronger on fee completeness txfee MEV (6 against 4)67
- 6Braiins Pool1 point below · weaker on block template control (4 against 5)64$300
- 7Foundry USA Pool2 points below · stronger on payout custody coinbase directness (4 against 2)63
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Why this rank
Why Luxor Mining Pool ranks #5
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (16.6 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest. Best in this ranking on 1 of 4.
4 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
309+8.649.09#1/8Loading evidence…
262+1.663.04#7/8Loading evidence…
244+3.075.59#6/8Loading evidence…
205+3.204.08#2/8Loading evidence…
Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−2behind F2Pool, #4
RobustnessOne point from changingacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 64–68 and ranks #4–#6
Evidence4 of 4 scored4 quoted, 4 with a source link
What would move the rank
Each line is the ranking run again with one of Luxor Mining Pool’s criterion scores changed and every other value held: the smallest whole-point change on that criterion that moves its rank, and where the re-run puts it. Up to 4 climbs and 3 falls are listed, smallest change first. Nothing here is a forecast.
Which payout scheme — and therefore who eats a bad-luck or orphaned-block run, the pool or you? 9 → 10 on its ladder · passes F2Pool+168#5 → #4
Does the coinbase transaction pay you, or does the pool hold your coin until it decides to release it? 2 → 3 on its ladder · passes F2Pool+167#5 → #4
Is the headline fee the whole fee — or are transaction fees, accelerator revenue and MEV quietly retained? 4 → 5 on its ladder · passes F2Pool+167#5 → #4
Who builds the block you are hashing on — and what do they leave out of it? 5 → 7 on its ladder · passes F2Pool+268#5 → #4
Which payout scheme — and therefore who eats a bad-luck or orphaned-block run, the pool or you? 9 → 8 on its ladder · Braiins Pool passes it−164#5 → #6
Does the coinbase transaction pay you, or does the pool hold your coin until it decides to release it? 2 → 1 on its ladder · Braiins Pool passes it−164#5 → #6
Is the headline fee the whole fee — or are transaction fees, accelerator revenue and MEV quietly retained? 4 → 3 on its ladder · Braiins Pool passes it−164#5 → #6
Smallest climb: “Which payout scheme — and therefore who eats a bad-luck or orphaned-block run, the pool or you?” 9 → 10 passes F2Pool, #4.
Strengths
1 from the score dataWhere it leads
Best for readers who weight
- Which payout scheme — and therefore who eats a bad-luck or orphaned-block run, the pool or you? — 9/10, the category best
Tradeoffs
3 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- Does the coinbase transaction pay you, or does the pool hold your coin until it decides to release it? — 2/10 against a category best of 4/10
- Is the headline fee the whole fee — or are transaction fees, accelerator revenue and MEV quietly retained? — 4/10 against a category best of 9/10
- Who builds the block you are hashing on — and what do they leave out of it? — 5/10 against a category best of 8/10
Record watch-outs
- The two words a Luxor miner would most resent finding after the hashrate is sold are "deemed lost". ToS 13.8: a subaccount not correctly attached to a Workspace Account is "orphaned", and "the hashrate and any associated payments shall be deemed lost due to misconfiguration" — with "Luxor is not responsible for recovering, crediting, or compensating you" and notification explicitly optional ("reserves the right, but has no obligation"). No breach, no bad faith, no dispute: a miner's configuration mistake extinguishes payment for work Luxor has already committed to a block and kept the proceeds of. Its sibling 13.9 does the same on a suspicion pathway — "you lose the right to claim any remaining balance". Read alongside 13.7's "Luxor does not act as a custodian of cryptocurrency on your behalf", the shape is clear: the coin sits in one Luxor address (32BfKjhByDSxx3BM5vUkQ3NQq9csZR6nt6, re-verified output-by-output in three coinbases this pass), the miner holds a non-deposit payable against a Delaware company that the terms nowhere state is segregated, and it is forfeitable. In fairness, 13.7 does also say "Luxor's obligation is limited to paying out accrued balances in accordance with the payout schedule and minimum thresholds published on the Luxor website" — an obligation exists; it is simply subordinate to the two forfeiture clauses. Second: the "0% pool fees" banner means paying a 2.8% LuxOS firmware dev fee taken as hashrate instead of the 2.50% published discount — strictly more expensive at every payment size (10.30% vs 10.00% all-in at threshold, 3.55% vs 3.25% at 0.01 BTC, 2.875% vs 2.575% at 0.1 BTC), with a 5% tolerance on the take and a rebate the miner only "may be entitled" to after three consecutive over-collections. Third: the chain shows Core, Syscoin and Rootstock merge-mining commitments in Luxor's coinbase today — decoded byte-level from the OP_RETURN scripts, not read off a label — and 13.4 makes Luxor "the sole beneficiary" of that revenue at its "sole discretion": disclosed, unquantified, never netted into any published rate.
Competitive position
Where Luxor Mining Pool leads and where it trails
Rank on every objective dimension among the rows scored on it. A criterion in the top third of its pool is listed as a lead, the bottom third as a trail; the middle is neither. Popularity, size and commercial terms are not dimensions.
Availability#1 / 814.0 of 20 · constant here
Published criteria#5 / 812.4 of 30 · best 18.0
Friction#1 / 82.7 of 10 · constant here
Trust record#1 / 83.2 of 8 · constant here
Measured data#1 / 88.3 of 18 · constant here
Where Luxor Mining Pool leads
- Which payout scheme — and therefore who eats a bad-luck or orphaned-block run, the pool or you?#1 / 8
- Who builds the block you are hashing on — and what do they leave out of it?#2 / 8
Where it trails
- Does the coinbase transaction pay you, or does the pool hold your coin until it decides to release it?#7 / 8
- Is the headline fee the whole fee — or are transaction fees, accelerator revenue and MEV quietly retained?#6 / 8
Closest alternatives
The 3 nearest rows by score
Nearest by published score in either direction. Each card states the criteria on which the two rows differ and the cost difference under the same scenario inputs; the compare arithmetic below shows why the higher one ranks higher.
Braiins Pool#6 of 8 · score 64 · 1.0 point behind
Luxor Mining Pool leads on
- Who builds the block you are hashing on — and what do they leave out of it?5 vs 4
Braiins Pool leads onNo scored criterion
Largest single reason Luxor Mining Pool is ahead: published criteria (+1.0 display points).Scenario cost: Braiins Pool is the same.
F2Pool#4 of 8 · score 67 · 2.0 points ahead
Luxor Mining Pool leads on
- Which payout scheme — and therefore who eats a bad-luck or orphaned-block run, the pool or you?9 vs 8
- Who builds the block you are hashing on — and what do they leave out of it?5 vs 4
F2Pool leads on
- Does the coinbase transaction pay you, or does the pool hold your coin until it decides to release it?3 vs 2
- Is the headline fee the whole fee — or are transaction fees, accelerator revenue and MEV quietly retained?6 vs 4
Largest single reason F2Pool is ahead: published criteria (+1.6 display points).Scenario cost: F2Pool has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Foundry USA Pool#7 of 8 · score 63 · 2.0 points behind
Luxor Mining Pool leads on
- Which payout scheme — and therefore who eats a bad-luck or orphaned-block run, the pool or you?9 vs 8
- Is the headline fee the whole fee — or are transaction fees, accelerator revenue and MEV quietly retained?4 vs 2
- Who builds the block you are hashing on — and what do they leave out of it?5 vs 4
Foundry USA Pool leads on
- Does the coinbase transaction pay you, or does the pool hold your coin until it decides to release it?4 vs 2
Largest single reason Luxor Mining Pool is ahead: published criteria (+2.9 display points).Scenario cost: Foundry USA Pool has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Against the leader
80 vs 65 · gap 15.0Why OCEAN ranks above Luxor Mining Pool
The compare workspace's arithmetic applied to these two rows. Each dimension's share of the gap is its weight × the difference, on the displayed scale — it reproduces the displayed gap of 15.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisOCEANGap share
Availability · 23% weight · constant here14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight12.418.0−14.6, worse
Friction · 12% weight · constant here2.72.7same
Trust record · 9% weight · constant here3.23.2same
Measured data · 21% weight · constant here8.38.3same
Published criterionThisOCEANPoints
Does the coinbase transaction pay you, or does the pool hold your coin until it decides to release it? · w2624−1.66, worse
Is the headline fee the whole fee — or are transaction fees, accelerator revenue and MEV quietly retained? · w2449−3.84, worse
Who builds the block you are hashing on — and what do they leave out of it? · w2058−1.92, worse
Net6580−15.0
Your scenario
What Luxor Mining Pool costs on your scenario
The pool fee on your mining revenue for a year. Excludes payout fees, any transaction-fee or MEV income the pool keeps, and your own hardware and power. Change an input and every figure recomputes from the published rate; the published rank does not move.
your cost/yr · default scenario — set your own
Your monthly mining revenue · your input$1k
Pool fee · published rate2.5%
Rate read from the provider’s published pricing ↗ on 29 September 2026.
your cost/yrCost is stated as your cost/yr in USD; it is never a yield, never annualised, and it does not enter the score.
$300
Under the default inputs · USDCategory median and cheapestNot statedOnly 2 of 8 rows publish a comparable price; a median and a cheapest row need at least 3.
6 of 8 rows in this ranking have no verified rate for this scenario and are absent from the median, not counted as free.
Evidence
Evidence read 29 September 2026
One row per published criterion: the page each strength was read from, its source type by domain, the reading date and whether the file and the published table agree. Open a row for the quote and the receipt.
4 of 4 cells scored
Score evidenceVerified4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from receipts
4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from a quoted, sourced receipt equal to the published strength.Public receiptsReading…4 quoted with a source URL
The receipt file has not been read yet.Evidence confidenceHighcoverage and corroboration, never freshness
4/4 criteria scored, with 4 dated sources quoted.RobustnessOne point from changingrank #4 to #6 across one-point re-runs
Whether the position holds when one criterion score is changed by one point and the ranking is run again. It is always a re-run of the ranking, never an estimate.The newest evidence read on the platform is 3 November 2026; this category's reading is older. The scores stand as read on 29 September 2026.
Reading the evidence ledger…
CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
Which payout scheme — and therefore who eats a bad-luck or orphaned-block run, the pool or you?strength 9 · weight 30Report an error—29 September 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Does the coinbase transaction pay you, or does the pool hold your coin until it decides to release it?strength 2 · weight 26Report an error—29 September 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Is the headline fee the whole fee — or are transaction fees, accelerator revenue and MEV quietly retained?strength 4 · weight 24Report an error—29 September 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Who builds the block you are hashing on — and what do they leave out of it?strength 5 · weight 20Report an error—29 September 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
- Liveness failure (Luxor Mining Pool 5/10): the operator stops, censors you or loses data.Scored by Who builds the block you are hashing on — and what do they leave out of it? · 20%
- Custody failure (Luxor Mining Pool 2/10): whoever holds the assets loses or withholds them.Scored by Does the coinbase transaction pay you, or does the pool hold your coin until it decides to release it? · 26%
- Insolvency failure (Luxor Mining Pool 9/10): the firm or issuer that owes you cannot pay.Scored by Which payout scheme — and therefore who eats a bad-luck or orphaned-block run, the pool or you? · 30%
Not assessed by this ranking: Exit failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means. Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: Is the headline fee the whole fee — or are transaction fees, accelerator revenue and MEV quietly retained? (24%).
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- FEE (documented, governs) — https://
docs .luxor .tech /platform /mining /getting-started, read 29 September 2026 through a rendering fetch because plain curl returns HTTP 403 (Cloudflare): table headed "Coin | Stratum | Discount to FPPS", row "Bitcoin | stratum+tcp://btc.global.luxor.tech:700 | 2.50%" (sibling rows "LTC/Doge | stratum+tcp://ltc.global.luxor.tech:700 | 3.00%", "Sia | stratum+tcp://sc.global.luxor.tech:700 | 3.00%", "ZCash | stratum+tcp://zec.global.luxor.tech:700 | 3.00%"). Basis — Terms of Service (https:// luxor .tech /mining /mining-pool /tos, fetched 29 September 2026, "Effective Date: May 1, 2026"), 13.1: "Luxor pays Users for their hashrate at a price derived from FPPS spot hashprice, less the applicable Discount Rate." 13.2: "The applicable Discount Rate is published on the Luxor website. Luxor reserves the right to modify the Discount Rate at any time with reasonable notice." FEE (marketing, does NOT govern, reported as a finding): "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." and, in the same page's FAQ, "Yes, miners using Luxor Firmware enjoy 0% pool fees when mining with Luxor's Bitcoin Pool, further enhancing profitability." (https:// luxor .tech /mining /firmware, fetched 29 September 2026); the firmware carrying that condition is priced at https:// docs .luxor .tech /firmware /introduction-to-firmware (read 29 September 2026 through a rendering fetch, curl 403): "LuxOS firmware operates on a 2.8% fee structure." and "However, when using our mining pool, users benefit from free pool usage." ToS 12.4 on that firmware fee: "Luxor may change or amend its fee percentage at any time and for any reason at its sole discretion." Merge-mining revenue is retained, ToS 13.4: "Luxor shall remain the sole beneficiary of such activities and may elect, in its sole discretion, whether or not to distribute any rewards derived therefrom to Users." PAYOUT SCHEME — https:// docs .luxor .tech /platform /mining /revenue-payments (read 29 September 2026 through a rendering fetch, curl 403): "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."; "FPPS eliminates earnings fluctuations caused by Bitcoin's block luck."; formula terms "b = Block subsidy at block height h (currently 3.125 BTC)", "t = Transaction fees for a specific block" and "L = Set of blocks filtered by excluding ≤p5 and ≥p95 based on the fees distribution for the 144-block lookback period". MINIMUM PAYOUT — same page, table headed "Pool | Min threshold | Withdrawal fee", row "Bitcoin | 0.001 | 0.000075", with "the system requires that a subaccount must hold a balance exceeding the minimum withdrawal threshold plus associated withdrawal fees to be eligible for payment." and "In all cases, payments are processed shortly after 04:00 UTC, assuming balance requirements are met." Cadence options (https:// luxor .tech /mining /mining-pool, fetched 29 September 2026): "Luxor allows users to configure payouts daily, weekly, or monthly, providing flexibility to manage earnings according to their specific needs." WORKED EXAMPLE (ChainChoice arithmetic, not a Luxor figure; computed shares are written in words to keep them apart from quoted prices): a payout at the Bitcoin threshold loses 0.000075 of 0.001, i.e. 7.5 per cent, so the all-in deduction at threshold is the 2.50% discount plus 7.5 per cent, 10 per cent in total; on LuxOS the 2.8% firmware fee replaces the discount, 10.3 per cent in total; retained merge-mining revenue (ToS 13.4) comes on top and is unquantified.Luxor Mining Pool — official page at docs.luxor.tech ↗ · 29 September 2026 - Prices published in
- USDLuxor Mining Pool — official page at docs.luxor.tech ↗ · 29 September 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- partial
- Regulatory note
- ONCHAIN CHECK RE-PERFORMED FROM RAW TX THIS PASS: Luxor block 963168, coinbase txid 02ddf75d762ff7e7c1144ca2c3a5a481f3f65dd2a0bcf3944bd2f4dcb79a349f (confirmed via /api/block/<hash>/txid/0), scriptSig hex 0360b20e1d506f7765726564206279204c75786f7220546563685d... decoding to the operator tag "Powered by Luxor Tech".
- Supported chains
- bitcoin
- Markets served
- global
- Primary markets
- Not published
- Restricted markets
- Not published
- Operating limits
- Not published
- Availability note
- Not published
No confirmed legal entity is on file for this record. Nothing is inferred from the brand name.
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History
What the record carries
Changes to published ranks are recorded in a ledger; every step and its cause is listed on the rank-history page. The entries below begin with the current verified snapshot, then the methodology versions whose changes applied to this category, newest first.
9 methodology entries
- 29 September 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.10.18Score 65, #5 of 8. 4 of 4 criteria scored. History starts here; earlier values are not interpolated.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.8When nothing serves your country, the list shown for reference is the published ranking · platform-wide- fixed The reference list shown when nothing serves your country is the published order with the published scores, and a build check now fails any such list out of that order or with a score the ranking does not publish.
- fixed The explorer prints an overall rank only for a row the published ranking holds; a country entrant such as Coinbase Commerce for US merchants shows no overall rank.
- changed Published orders do not move. Country results change only where nothing serves the country: in India bill pay keeps Bitcoin Well first and now shows Strike second, as published; 35 such runs across all categories and countries now match the published list exactly.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.6A criterion you require re-scores the rows that meet it · platform-wide- changed The explorer sends each criterion you require, at any band, as fit_required with your other answers; region, licence, chain and fact filters stay filters. On /best, a required criterion joins For you as a marked preference does, which needs your country; Overall stays the published ranking, filtered.
- added Every published criterion has a golden case as the explorer sends it (require:<criterion>), so the order a requirement gives is replayed and gated as the published order is, and a change to it needs an entry here.
- 16 September 2026
2026.09.15Dimension scores carry tenths, and eleven more categories are re-read from primary sources · platform-wide- changed Dimension scores resolve to tenths of a point (O-04b), and weightedTotal is rounded to six decimal places before the order is read. 518 published scores move across 107 categories that were not re-read; none of them moves by more than 4 points, and most move by 1.
- fixed 66 published scores change in the eleven re-read categories, against a verbatim source each. The largest moves are Reflexer RAI (−16), Beefy and Unrekt (−11), Aztec (−10) and Golem (+9) — all of them rows whose sources had moved since their last read.
- changed Published order moves in 38 of 119 categories and three #1s change: smart_contract_audits (Zellic → Certora) and travel_rule_compliance (Sumsub Travel Rule → CodeVASP) on the finer resolution, kyc_compliance (Veriff → Sumsub) on the re-read.
- added availabilitySource (O-04g): for a reader who states a country, a row whose availability in that country rests on a region tag its record gives no source for sorts below every sourced row. It is inert in every order published here, which states no country.
Methodology 2026.10.18, the same published run every visitor sees · receipt mining_pools:luxor:2026.10.18:a243c616467d
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