Mining Pool Revenue Calculator

Joining a mining pool trades the lottery-like variance of solo mining for a steady, predictable payout, and this calculator models exactly how that trade works. It first derives the network's total hashrate from the difficulty figure you enter (difficulty × 2^32 ÷ 600 seconds, the standard 10-minute-block relationship), then figures out what fraction of daily block rewards the whole pool should statistically earn and what slice of that belongs to you based on your hashrate relative to the pool's. Your payout is computed under the PPS (Pay Per Share) model, where you're credited your exact proportional share of network-wide rewards regardless of whether the pool actually found a block that day — smooth income, in exchange for the pool operator absorbing the variance and charging a fee for it (subtracted here as a straight percentage of gross revenue).

PPLNS is shown as functionally identical to PPS net revenue on average, since both converge to the same expected value over time; the real difference between the two methods is short-term payout smoothness, not long-run earnings, which this tool doesn't model. The solo-mining comparison is a genuinely different animal: no fee is deducted, but the "days between blocks" figure exposes the flip side — at typical individual hashrates against network-wide difficulty, that number can run into months or years, meaning solo mining is a high-variance bet that could pay out much sooner or much later than the expected value shown. Treat every result here as a statistical expectation, not a guarantee, since real-world luck, pool downtime, and difficulty changes will all cause actual earnings to drift from these projections.