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- Category
- Bitcoin Mining Pools
- Entity
- Not verified
- Official website
- spiderpool.com
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Details
Scored 69 out of 100 under methodology 2026.10.18, from the evidence read in September 2026.
SpiderPool
Custodial Bitcoin mining pool
Bitcoin Mining Pools
#3 Overall
Ranked #3 of 8 Bitcoin mining pools in the published ranking
69
ChainChoice Score
The ChainChoice Score, shown against 100: published scores run from 41 to 99.- High evidence confidence
Is SpiderPool 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
- Is the headline fee the whole fee — or are transaction fees, accelerator revenue and MEV quietly retained?7/10 here; the category best is 9
- Who builds the block you are hashing on — and what do they leave out of it?3/10 here; Luxor Mining Pool scores 5
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What will SpiderPool cost you?
Not priced on this basis
- Your monthly mining revenue
- $1k
How safe is SpiderPool?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read September 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
Alternatives to SpiderPool
Compare all 4- 2ViaBTC2 points above · stronger on payout custody coinbase directness (4 against 3)71
- 4F2Pool2 points below · stronger on block template control (4 against 3)67
- 5Luxor Mining Pool4 points below · stronger on block template control (5 against 3)65$300
For your setup
Find out if SpiderPool fits you
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Why this rank
Why SpiderPool ranks #3
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (18.4 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…
263+2.503.04#4/8Loading evidence…
247+5.385.59#2/8Loading evidence…
203+1.924.08#6/8Loading evidence…
Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−2behind ViaBTC, #2
RobustnessOne point from changingacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 67–71 and ranks #2–#3
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 SpiderPool’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 ViaBTC+171#3 → #2
Does the coinbase transaction pay you, or does the pool hold your coin until it decides to release it? 3 → 4 on its ladder · passes ViaBTC+171#3 → #2
Is the headline fee the whole fee — or are transaction fees, accelerator revenue and MEV quietly retained? 7 → 9 on its ladder · passes ViaBTC+272#3 → #2
Who builds the block you are hashing on — and what do they leave out of it? 3 → 5 on its ladder · passes ViaBTC+272#3 → #2
Which payout scheme — and therefore who eats a bad-luck or orphaned-block run, the pool or you? 9 → 7 on its ladder · F2Pool passes it−265#3 → #5
Does the coinbase transaction pay you, or does the pool hold your coin until it decides to release it? 3 → 1 on its ladder · F2Pool passes it−266#3 → #4
Is the headline fee the whole fee — or are transaction fees, accelerator revenue and MEV quietly retained? 7 → 5 on its ladder · F2Pool passes it−266#3 → #4
Smallest climb: “Which payout scheme — and therefore who eats a bad-luck or orphaned-block run, the pool or you?” 9 → 10 passes ViaBTC, #2.
Strengths
2 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
2 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- Is the headline fee the whole fee — or are transaction fees, accelerator revenue and MEV quietly retained? — 7/10 against a category best of 9/10
- Who builds the block you are hashing on — and what do they leave out of it? — 3/10 against a category best of 8/10
Record watch-outs
- That the coinbase pays SpiderPool, never you — and that the terms governing the balance it holds for you do not mention that balance at all. Three SpiderPool blocks were opened onchain this pass (963184, 963164, 963159) and each generation transaction has exactly ONE value-bearing output, all three to the same address 1BM1sAcrfV6d4zPKytzziu4McLQDsFC2Qc. Your claim is a database row at a counterparty whose own twelve-section Terms of Service, read end to end, contains no clause on mining rewards, no segregation language, no insolvency provision and no statement of what becomes of an accrued balance — while granting the operator the right to '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 breached it, and providing that after termination 'you do not have the right to require this Website to continue to provide you with any service or perform any other obligation.' The counterparty is not a named company, only 'www.spiderpool.com', under Cayman Islands law. Layered on top: a 0.005 BTC threshold that at the 2026-09-29 difficulty is about 55 days of continuous FPPS mining for one S21-class rig and about 110 days at 100 TH/s, net of the 4% fee, with the only sub-threshold escape a manual email processed 'on Monday of every week', floored at 0.001 BTC, with the onchain fee shifted to you — and nothing published at all below 0.001. A miner who reads 'The First Decentralized Mining Pool' on SpiderPool's /decentralization page and then points hashrate discovers a Stratum V1 endpoint, a pool-built template, one custodial address, and a 4% FPPS fee that is the rack rate before an unpublished VIP negotiation.
Competitive position
Where SpiderPool 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#3 / 813.8 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 SpiderPool leads
- Which payout scheme — and therefore who eats a bad-luck or orphaned-block run, the pool or you?#1 / 8
- Is the headline fee the whole fee — or are transaction fees, accelerator revenue and MEV quietly retained?#2 / 8
Where it trails
- Who builds the block you are hashing on — and what do they leave out of it?#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.
ViaBTC#2 of 8 · score 71 · 2.0 points ahead
SpiderPool leads onNo scored criterion
ViaBTC leads on
- Does the coinbase transaction pay you, or does the pool hold your coin until it decides to release it?4 vs 3
Largest single reason ViaBTC is ahead: published criteria (+1.6 display points).Scenario cost: ViaBTC has no verified pricing for this scenario.
F2Pool#4 of 8 · score 67 · 2.0 points behind
SpiderPool 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?7 vs 6
F2Pool leads on
- Who builds the block you are hashing on — and what do they leave out of it?4 vs 3
Largest single reason SpiderPool is ahead: published criteria (+2.1 display points).Scenario cost: F2Pool has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Luxor Mining Pool#5 of 8 · score 65 · 4.0 points behind
SpiderPool 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?7 vs 4
Luxor Mining Pool leads on
- Who builds the block you are hashing on — and what do they leave out of it?5 vs 3
Largest single reason SpiderPool is ahead: published criteria (+3.6 display points).Scenario cost: SpiderPool has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Against the leader
80 vs 69 · gap 11.0Why OCEAN ranks above SpiderPool
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 11.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisOCEANGap share
Availability · 23% weight · constant here14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight13.818.0−10.9, 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? · w2634−0.83, worse
Is the headline fee the whole fee — or are transaction fees, accelerator revenue and MEV quietly retained? · w2479−1.54, worse
Who builds the block you are hashing on — and what do they leave out of it? · w2038−3.20, worse
Net6980−11.0
Your scenario
SpiderPool is not priced for this 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
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.
Not priced on this basis
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 #2 to #3 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 3 · 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 7 · 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 3 · 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 (SpiderPool 3/10): 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 (SpiderPool 3/10): 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 (SpiderPool 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 — fee table at https://
support .spiderpool .com /fees (fetched 29 September 2026), columns "Currency", "Settlement Model", "Fee", "Payment Threshold": BTC / PPLNS / "0%（Promotion）" and "1%" in the same cell / "0.005"; BTC / FPPS / "4%" / "0.005"; FB (Merged) / PPLNS / "0%" / "0.1"; DMT-NAT (Merged) / PPLNS / "4%" / "5000000". Restated at https:// support .spiderpool .com /bitcoin-mining (fetched 29 September 2026): "Answer: PPLNS: 1%, FPPS: 4%". FEE BASE (fees page): "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." and "Daily Revenue = (PPS Revenue + Transaction Fee Revenue) * (1-Miningpool's fee rate)" || PAYOUT SCHEME — FPPS (fees page): "PPS Reveue = sum(share's diff / current network diff * coinbase reward)" [sic], "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.", "Transaction Fee Rate = sum(transaction fees of remaining blocks) / sum(fixed rewards of remaining blocks)", "Customer's Transaction Fee Revenue = User's PPS Revenue from the previous day * Transaction Fee Rate"; "Note 2: PPS revenue is settled hourly."; "Note2: Transaction Fee Revenue is settled daily." PPLNS (fees page): "PPLNS: The time when a block is mined is pushed forward by 3 theoretical blocks. During this time, the allocation is based on the proportion of the user's processing hashrate to the total processing hashrate of the mining pool." Risk transfer per mode (https:// support .spiderpool .com /about-mining /what-are-the-differences-between-pps-pps+-fpps-pplns-solo, fetched 29 September 2026): FPPS "Therefore, miner earnings are independent of the pool's actual blocks mined or its luck factor."; PPLNS "Earnings are subject to the pool's luck and may fluctuate." || MINIMUM PAYOUT — "Answer: The default payout amount is 0.005 BTC, with daily payouts." (https:// support .spiderpool .com /bitcoin-mining); cadence "Payment Range（All currencies）：00:00 today to 00:00 UTC tomorrow" and "Payment Time（All currencies）：02:00 to 10:00 UTC daily" (fees page); sub-threshold route "BTC currency balance 0.001 ≦ minimum amount < 0.005." by email, "We will process it on Monday of every week, please set up your wallet address in advance.", with "The transaction fee for coin withdrawal is borne by the user." and, at or above 0.005 BTC, "The transaction fee for coin withdrawal will be borne by the mining pool." (https:// support .spiderpool .com /faq /how-to-apply-for-the-minimum-balance-of-the-spiderpool-to-make-a-paymen, fetched 29 September 2026). NOT PUBLISHED: any VIP rate — the fees page offers only "Click to apply for VIP>>", with no tier, threshold or discount schedule on any page read.SpiderPool — official pricing page ↗ · 29 September 2026 - Prices published in
- USDSpiderPool — official pricing page ↗ · 29 September 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- partial
- Regulatory note
- ONCHAIN CHECK PERFORMED AND CONCLUSIVE — FULLY CUSTODIAL. Block 963184, hash 000000000000000000011d034227e34d8cac652a3cf7027c98001825a69a937b, timestamp 2026-08-19T14:54:18Z, 4,652 transactions, attributed by the coinbase tag '/SpiderPool/' carried in the generation transaction's scriptSig (ASCII fragment 'SpiderPool/742/' plus the AuxPoW magic fabe6d6d confirming merge-mining commitments).
- Supported chains
- bitcoin
- Markets served
- global
- Primary markets
- Not published
- Restricted markets
- Not published
- Operating limits
- Not published
- Availability note
- SpiderPool Terms of Service 4.2 (read 29 September 2026 from the live terms bundle https://
www .spiderpool .com /p _ _help _ _term _ _term .e70dc027 .async .js): "USE OF THE SERVICE BY PERSONS LOCATED IN CHINESE MAINLAN, SUDAN, IRAN, NORTH KOREA, SYRIA IS PROHIBITED." None of the five named jurisdictions is in the site's country list, so the restriction is carried as this note rather than as restrictedMarkets.
No confirmed legal entity is on file for this record. Nothing is inferred from the brand name.
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How this page is reviewed
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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 69, #3 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:spiderpool:2026.10.18:a243c616467d
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