Questions, answered plainly.

Choose SOLO if you run a large farm or enjoy the lottery: every block you find is yours. Choose PPLNS for steady rewards from almost every pool block. PROP splits each round by its shares and is the simplest pooled scheme. PPS+ and PARTY are coming soon. Compare them in our guide to payout schemes.

Your hashrate works on its own. You do not share your blocks and nobody shares theirs with you. When your miner finds a block, the miner reward minus the 2% fee belongs to you; until then you receive nothing. It suits miners who prefer a large, occasional reward over a steady trickle.

Directly through the block itself. In SOLO, the coinbase of every block you find sends 98% of the miner reward to your t-address and 2% to the pool fee output. In PROP and PPLNS, the coinbase splits the reward across every contributing miner's address, and a slice under 0.0005 ZEC is carried over and added to your next payout, so each output is worth shielding and nothing is lost. There is never anything to withdraw.

We only support direct transparent coinbase payouts, so every reward stays public and auditable on chain. The worker name must therefore be a t1 or t3 address: unified (u1…) and shielded (zs1…) addresses do not work as a username. You can shield the coins in your own wallet once they mature. Read more about transparent vs shielded transactions.

Some exchanges do not accept coinbase deposits. Mine to a wallet whose keys you hold, let the reward mature, then send it on as a normal transaction. Our guide explains what to do when an exchange rejects mining rewards.

Coinbase outputs mature after 100 confirmations, about two hours at 75 seconds per block. Zcash rules then require coinbase funds to be moved to a shielded address before they can be spent. Your wallet's shield function does this.

Since the NU6 network upgrade, 20% of every block subsidy funds Zcash development under protocol rules: 8% for Zcash Community Grants and 12% for a protocol-controlled fund. Miners receive the other 80%, which is 1.25 ZEC per block plus transaction fees.

Any machine that mines Equihash (200,9), the proof of work Zcash uses, including the Bitmain Antminer Z15 (420 kSol/s) and Z15 Pro (840 kSol/s). Other Equihash variants such as (144,5) or (192,7) are different algorithms and will not work.

It depends only on your hashrate and the network difficulty. The calculator shows your live odds. As a guide, one Antminer Z15 Pro at today's difficulty averages one block every 36d 10h.

Effort compares the work done in a round with the work one block needs on average. 100% means a block took exactly the expected work. Rounds regularly end under 50% or run past 300%; over many blocks the average settles near 100%.

Open the block on any Zcash explorer. Its coinbase transaction carries the /zprominers.com/ tag, the miners' outputs and a separate output for the pool fee.

Both are planned, with no launch date yet. PPS+ will offer a fixed reward per accepted share, and PARTY will let private groups mine together. Follow the blog for launch news.

Your miner keeps a list of pools and moves to the next one when the first stops responding. Add a backup pool as the second entry so your machine keeps hashing if ZProMiners is ever unreachable.