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.
The fee, in one paragraph
One flat fee applies, the same for pool (proportional) and solo mining, and the current figure is shown live on the pool statistics. It is deducted automatically from block rewards before distribution; there are no other charges, and payout transactions cost you nothing extra. If the fee ever changes, the new rate applies only to blocks found after the change, never retroactively to blocks already found.
From block to balance
When the pool finds a block, its reward first shows as pending while the network confirms it. A freshly mined block needs a number of confirmations before its coins are spendable, which is a rule of the coin itself, not of the pool. Once the block matures, your share of it is credited to your address balance.
Hourly, non-custodial payouts
Payouts run automatically every hour. If your confirmed balance has reached the minimum payout shown on the site, it is sent to your own wallet in that run: the pool never holds your coins longer than the gap between maturity and the next hourly payment. A balance always belongs to the address that earned it and cannot be moved to a different address.
Pending versus confirmed on your dashboard
Your dashboard separates the two: pending is the estimated value of blocks still maturing, confirmed is the payable balance waiting for the next payout run. If a block is orphaned, meaning another block won the network race at the same height, it pays nothing; that is a normal part of every blockchain and affects every pool equally.