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Getting started
Connect a miner to a HeroMiners pool and start earning.
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How to choose your server region Why the closest region wins, what latency really affects in mining, and what to do when your ISP or country blocks mining domains. Why your pool hashrate differs from your miner The miner console says one number and the pool dashboard another. What each number measures and when a gap is a real problem. How to read your mining dashboard A tour of your miner dashboard: hashrate averages, workers, balances, blocks and payments, and what each number is really telling you. Why we show stale shares What a hidden stale share costs you, how this pool reports staleness openly, and how to use the number instead of fearing it.
Payouts and profitability
How pools pay, and what your hardware earns.
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Pool fee and payouts explained Exactly what the HeroMiners Pearl pool charges, when you get paid, and how a found block turns into coins in your own wallet. Shares, difficulty and effort explained The three numbers behind every mining dashboard: what a share proves, what share difficulty tunes, and what effort tells you about luck. PPS vs PPLNS vs PROP: payout schemes explained The three reward schemes explained in plain English: what PPS, PPLNS and PROP each pay, who carries the risk, and which suits your rig. Do stale shares get paid? No, on any pool and under any reward scheme. Why late work cannot pay, how stale differs from rejected, and how to get your rate under one percent. How to sell or trade your mined coins The safe path from coins in your wallet to money: choosing an exchange, depositing with a test send, trading, withdrawing and keeping records. Mining and tax: what to record and why the record is the hard part The two moments that nearly every country treats separately, why hourly payouts make the record harder than the rules, and exactly what to keep so the year is possible to file. Choosing your payout threshold: the arithmetic What the minimum payout actually controls, why batched payouts change the usual advice, and how to pick a number instead of guessing at one. Auto coin switching: when it pays and when it quietly costs you What a profit switcher actually compares, the three costs it does not count, and why the reward scheme decides whether switching is free or expensive. What a kilowatt-hour costs around the world, and what it does to the same rig Household power ranges from about five cents a kWh to over forty, so the same card is profitable in one country and a heater in another. Where the bands sit, why your bill is not one number, and how to find the price that actually applies to your rig. Where mining is allowed, and how the income is treated Most countries neither welcome nor ban mining: they price it, license it or make the banking awkward. The three states a country can be in, why energy policy moves faster than crypto law, and how the income is treated in a few of the larger markets. Hashprice: the one number that says what your hashrate is worth What a unit of hashrate earns per day, where the number comes from, and why it moves when you have changed nothing at all. Hashrate marketplace vs mining pool: which one actually pays you A pool pays you in outcomes and a marketplace pays you a rate. Same hardware, different product, and a different risk each way.
Solo mining
Whole blocks, high variance: how solo mining works.
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Pool vs solo mining: which should you pick? Pool mining pays you small, steady amounts for the whole pool's work; solo mining pays whole blocks, rarely. How to choose between them. Solo mining on the pool: a complete guide How to mine Pearl for whole blocks using the pool's infrastructure, what the odds really look like, and when solo is the right call. Pool luck and orphan blocks explained What block effort and pool luck really mean, why an unlucky streak is normal variance, and what an orphaned block costs the round.
Software and troubleshooting
Miner setup and fixes for the problems that come up most.
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Worker offline: a troubleshooting checklist Your dashboard or a notification says a worker went offline. Work through this checklist from the most common cause to the rarest. How to find your worker IP address Payout settings changes are verified against your worker IP. Here is exactly which IP the pool means and how to find it on any system. How pool notifications work Get alerts on Telegram, Discord, ntfy or web push for block finds, payouts, offline workers and hashrate drops, with no account required. How to set up mining notifications The pool can tell you when a worker goes offline, when a block is found and when a payout leaves. Four channels do that job. This page explains what each one is like, so you can pick before you set one up. How to set up Telegram mining notifications Link Telegram to the wallet you mine with: copy the verify command from your dashboard, send it to the bot, pick the events you care about, and use the chat commands afterwards. How to set up Discord mining notifications Link Discord to the wallet you mine with: copy the verify command from your dashboard, send it to the bot, pick the events you care about, and use the chat commands afterwards. How to set up ntfy mining notifications Get alerts on your phone without an account: install the ntfy app, subscribe to the private topic your dashboard shows you, and pick the events you care about. How to set up browser push mining notifications Turn on browser notifications for the wallet you mine with, understand why each browser and device is separate, and choose the events that alert you. How to install the pool as an app on your phone Add the pool site to your phone home screen so it opens like an app, and unlock browser push notifications on iPhone, where Safari only offers them to installed sites. Getting started with the pool API Read live pool and per-miner stats programmatically: the public JSON endpoints, how to query your own address, and fair-use notes. What is a stale share? What a stale share is, why a small percentage is normal on every pool, and the connection and region checks that bring the number down. Share reject reasons: what the pool told your miner Every reply the pool sends when it declines a share, what each one actually means, and which ones point at something you can fix. How to fix rejected shares What a rejected share means, the difference from a stale share, and the checklist that fixes the common causes one by one. Vardiff and static share difficulty How the pool tunes your share difficulty automatically, why your earnings never change with it, and the rare cases for pinning a value. BAT files for mining, explained What a miner start script is, how to edit one safely on Windows and Linux, and the anatomy of the command every miner shares. How to get your miner's logs Where miner logs live, how to switch file logging on, how to read the first error yourself, and what to include when you ask for help. Watchdogs: keeping rigs mining unattended The layers that restart a crashed miner, a hung driver or a frozen rig automatically, from miner flags to hardware watchdog timers. The miner settings that actually matter The five settings every miner shares, what each one does, and the defaults you should not change without a measured reason to do it. Changing DNS for mining connectivity What DNS has to do with mining, how to change the DNS server on a PC, router or rig, and how to test that it fixed the problem. Set up an SSL mining proxy Route every rig through one server you control: what an SSL mining proxy is, when you need one, how to set it up, and why it clears the shared worker name warning. Finding the local IP of a rig How to find a rig's address on your own network from the router, from Windows or from a mining OS, and how to make it stay the same. Why antivirus flags miners, and what to do The honest reason mining software triggers antivirus warnings, how to exclude a miner you chose to run, and how to stay safe doing it. Mining over LTE and mobile internet Whether mobile internet is good enough for mining, what actually matters (latency, not bandwidth), and how to set a stable LTE rig site up.
Hardware
Choosing and tuning the hardware you mine with.
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GPU vs CPU vs ASIC mining How GPUs, CPUs and ASICs differ as mining hardware: what each is good at, what each costs to run, and which coins suit which of them. GPU tuning for mining: a safe starting point How undervolting and clock tuning cut power and heat without losing hashrate, and how to tune without hurting stability. Is crypto mining profitable? How to work out whether mining pays for you: hashrate, electricity price, network difficulty and coin price, with the calculator to check it. Renting rigs on MiningRigRentals How MiningRigRentals differs from NiceHash, how to point a rented rig at this pool, and how to check whether your coin's algorithm is rentable. ReBAR, Above 4G Decoding and CSM What the three BIOS settings every mining guide mentions actually do, when they matter for mining, and how to set them safely. Powering a rig: connectors, risers and the circuit it plugs into What each connector is rated to carry, why the SATA-powered riser is the classic rig fire, and how to work out what one wall socket can actually run. Buying a used card that has been mining What a year of mining actually wears out, why a mined card is often in better shape than a gamed one, and the tests that separate a bargain from a problem. Undervolting: why running slower usually earns more The physics that makes less power cost less work than it saves, how to find your own best point, and why the number to optimise is not hashrate. Heat, noise and dust: running a rig where you actually live Why a rig is a heater rated at its own wall draw, why intake air is a floor no fan can beat, and the practical limits on putting one in a home. A card stopped working: what to check before deciding it is dead The order to swap parts in so the fault has only one place left to hide, what the common symptoms usually mean, and how to handle a return if it really is the card. Why the same card is not the same price, and what that does to payback Duty, tax, freight and currency turn one list price into many. How to work out what a card really costs you, what that does to the payback figures on the hardware table, and when importing yourself is worth the trouble.
Pool policies
How a pool handles your coins and your data.
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Is pool mining safe? The real risks of joining a mining pool, and how this pool's no-account, non-custodial and fully-verified design keeps you protected. How long does the pool keep your coins? The pool's custody policy in plain words: what a balance is, when it pays out, and what happens to balances below the minimum. Block withholding: the attack a pool cannot see in a single share A miner sends real shares and hides the one that would have been a block. Here is what it costs, who pays, and how it is caught.
Crypto mining basics
Plain-English explainers of the core mining concepts.
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What is crypto mining? A plain-English explanation of how mining secures a blockchain, why it earns you coins, and where Pearl's useful-work approach fits in. What is a mining pool? What a mining pool does, why miners join one instead of mining alone, and how a pool turns your shares into a steady, predictable income. What is hashrate? What the hashrate number really measures, why your miner and the pool report slightly different values, and what units to expect. What is network difficulty? How a blockchain keeps blocks arriving at a steady pace, what difficulty means for your odds, and why it constantly moves. What is a block reward? What you actually earn when a block is found: the subsidy, the transaction fees, and how Pearl's emission changes over time. Proof of work vs proof of stake How proof of work and proof of stake secure a blockchain differently, what each costs, and why only proof-of-work coins can be mined. What is a crypto wallet? What a crypto wallet actually holds, the difference between hot and cold storage, and why your seed phrase is the only thing that matters. How to create a Quai (QUAI) wallet A step-by-step guide to creating a Quai (QUAI) wallet: installing Pelagus, setting a password, backing up your 12-word recovery phrase, and copying the QUAI address a pool pays you to (plus the exchange and mobile options). Pool mining security A practical security checklist for pool miners: protecting your wallet and recovery phrase, verifying addresses, and locking down your operating system, browser and network so your payouts stay yours. Can you mine crypto on a phone? What phone mining actually earns, why the numbers are what they are, and what the apps that promise otherwise really do. Cryptojacking: when a machine mines for somebody else How mining malware gets in, why a rig owner is the hardest person to hide it from and the easiest to fool, and how to check and clean a machine properly. What is inside a block: header, height, size and subsidy A block is a small fixed header plus a body of transactions. Knowing which is which explains what mining actually hashes and why. Hard fork vs soft fork, and what each one does to a miner The difference is whether software that has not upgraded still accepts the new blocks. That single answer decides everything else.
Glossary
Every mining and crypto term, defined A to Z.
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