HMP FairShare Payout System
Every miner earns their fair share. Small miners get a boost. Loyal miners get rewarded. The block finder gets extra. Transparent, automatic, and built for the community.
💡 How It Works
When the pool finds a DigiByte block, the 265.19992131 DGB block reward is split using our HMP FairShare formula:
Goes to the miner who found the block. Scales with active hours — up to 25% at the 168h tier.
Split equally among miners below 10 TH/s. No hashrate floor — all eligible small rigs stay eligible.
Split equally among miners active 4+ days with no gap over 24 hours in the payout window.
Distributed proportionally to all miners based on shares submitted in the last 7 days.
HMP FairShare: Every block reward is split with no pool fee — 0% pool fee, up to 25% weighted finder (65.5 DGB), 3% small miner boost (7.86 DGB, equal split), 6% loyalty (15.72 DGB, equal split), and 66% PPLNS (172.92 DGB, proportional by 7-day shares).
The finder also earns their normal PPLNS share — the finder bonus is extra, on top of their proportional share.
🤔 Why HMP FairShare?
Most pools are either solo (winner-takes-all) or plain PPLNS (proportional only). HMP FairShare goes further — rewarding loyalty, protecting small miners, and still giving the block finder a meaningful bonus:
- Small Miner Boost (3%) — Equal cut for every small rig, every block. A Bitaxe or NerdMiner earns the same boost as the next small miner, regardless of hashrate.
- Loyalty Bonus (6%) — Miners who stay connected for 4+ days earn an equal share of this pool. Consistency is rewarded, not just raw power.
- Weighted Finder's Reward (up to 25%) — The block finder earns extra, and the longer they've been mining the more they earn — scaling from tiered steps up to 25% at 168h active.
- PPLNS Base (66%) — The bulk of the reward is still proportional — bigger hashrate, more shares, larger cut. Fair and predictable.
- Reduced variance — Every miner earns every time a block is found. No "nothing until you win" volatility.
⏳ Payout Timeline
1. Block Found
A miner in the pool submits a share that solves a DigiByte block. The full 265.19992131 DGB reward is received by the pool wallet.
2. Round Calculated (Instant)
Within seconds, the system calculates each miner's share of the reward based on their contribution over the past 7 days. Credits are added to miner balances.
3. Coinbase Maturity (100 blocks / ~16 hours)
DigiByte requires 100 confirmations before coinbase rewards can be spent. The pool waits for full maturity to ensure the block is confirmed.
4. Payout Sent
Once matured, miners with balances above the 10,500 sat minimum threshold receive their DGB in a batched on-chain transaction. Balances below the threshold continue to accumulate.
5. Force Payout (90 days)
Any remaining balance above dust limit is automatically paid out after 90 days, even if it hasn't reached the minimum threshold. No miner's earnings are ever lost.
\📈 Real Example: 100 Miners
Here's what happens when the pool finds a block with 100 active miners. Payouts are based on the total share difficulty each miner submits during the 7-day PPLNS window, not hashrate alone. Higher hashrate generally produces more shares, but the actual accepted share difficulty is what determines your cut. Block reward: 265.19992131 DGB.
| Miner Type | Count | Approx. Hashrate | % of Total Shares | Share Pool Earned | Bonuses | Per Miner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Block Finder (Bitaxe) FINDER | 1 | 600 GH/s | 0.33% | DGB | 0.13 DGB | 53.82 DGB |
| 100 TH/s ASIC Farm | 2 | 200 TH/s | 55.00% | DGB | 0.13 DGB each | 65.11 DGB |
| 500 TH/s Rental / Hosted Farm | 1 | 500 TH/s | 33.00% | DGB | 0.13 DGB | 87.89 DGB |
| 5–10 TH/s Small ASIC | 3 | 21 TH/s | 8.00% | DGB | 0.13 DGB each | 7.23 DGB |
| NerdMiner / Experimental Board | 8 | 200 GH/s | 3.67% | DGB | 0.13 DGB each | 1.35 DGB |
| Total | 100 | 100% | 196.24794177 DGB | 13.25999607 DGB |
How shares determine your payout: The pool assigns each miner a difficulty level based on their hashrate. When your miner submits a valid share, the difficulty of that share is recorded. Over the 7-day window, the total difficulty of all your accepted shares is compared to the total difficulty from all miners in the pool. That ratio determines your percentage of the 66% PPLNS share pool. Hashrate is shown above as a reference, but your actual payout is always calculated from accepted share difficulty.
Finder's Bonus Breakdown: The block finder (a Bitaxe at 600 GH/s) earns their normal share pool payout of DGB, loyalty + small bonuses of 0.13 DGB, plus the finder's bonus of 53.03998426 DGB = 53.82 DGB total. Any miner on any hardware can be the finder.
Small miners and the long game: Hobby boards and small ASICs earn smaller amounts from the share pool per block, but those balances accumulate over every SHA256 block the pool finds. DigiByte produces a network block about every 15 seconds across its mining algorithms, while SHA256 blocks average roughly one every 75 seconds. The real opportunity for smaller miners is the finder's bonus. Every share your device submits is a chance to solve a block and earn the up to 25% finder's bonus. A NerdMiner share that solves a block pays the same finder's bonus as a 500 TH/s rental.
For perspective: a NerdMiner earning ~1.35 DGB per block would accumulate steadily as the pool finds SHA256 blocks throughout the day.
🔑 Key Details
⏳ How the 7-Day Share Window Works
Your shares do not accumulate value indefinitely. The pool uses a rolling 7-day PPLNS window, which means only shares submitted in the 7 days immediately before a block is found count toward that payout.
A 7-day window rewards loyalty. If you've been mining consistently for a week and lose power for a few hours due to a storm or ISP outage, you keep the vast majority of your share weight. A 12-hour outage only costs you about 7% of your window, not 50%. It also discourages pool hopping and short-term hashrate rental attacks, since a single day of rented hashpower gets diluted by a full week of loyal miners' contributions.
If the pool goes an extended period without finding a block, shares older than 7 days fall out of the window. When a block is finally found, only miners who were actively hashing within the last 7 days receive a cut of the reward.
In short: stay connected, keep hashing, and when a block lands you will receive your proportional share of the reward based on your contributions over the past week.
Have More Questions?
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