How Lazarus Pool pays: TIDES, inside the block itself

Your miner hashes a plain BLAKE2b header and knows nothing about any of this. Every share it sends is rebuilt into a full header and hashed again by Prime, the pool server; accepted work is credited to the address in your username and enters the TIDES window. The window holds the last eight times network difficulty of accepted work, which is days of pool work rather than a recent average.

When the pool finds a block, every address in that window becomes an output of that block's coinbase, in proportion to its share of the window and less that miner's fee. A new rig starts near zero and ramps up as its work enters the window and older work ages out.

Prime has already handed every gateway the same coinbase output list — the one shown under Next payout — and a share whose coinbase pays anything else is refused. So whoever's machine finds the block, that block pays the whole window. There is no pool balance to withdraw and no operator holding your coins between blocks.

Lazarus Pool is the first pool confirmed to run a TIDES split coinbase on BLAKE2b Bitcoin mainnet — not on a testnet and not as a proposal, but in blocks you can open in the explorer and read the outputs of. An output under 0.01 XBT is carried forward to your next one. If the pool vanished tonight, nobody would be owed anything. Why there is nothing to trust · connect a miner.

Custody fee: from block 977,665, make-goods for pool-only or partial coinbases pay 10% less to miners whose own out-of-date gateway produced them. Miners on current gateways are paid in full.

How it works

How your share becomes a payout.

For newcomers and operators alike. Your ASIC never sees any of this — it hashes a plain BLAKE2b header.

  1. You hash, the pool counts

    Point your machines at your own DATUM gateway. Prime rebuilds and checks every share, and credits accepted work to your address in the TIDES window.

  2. The window decides the split

    The window holds the last 8 × network difficulty of accepted work — days of pool work at typical hashrate, not the last hour. A found block pays each address in proportion to its share of that window, less its fee. A new rig starts near 0% and ramps as its work enters and older work ages out.

  3. The block pays you directly

    Prime hands every gateway the same coinbase output list — the one shown under Next payout. A share whose coinbase pays anything else is refused, so whoever finds the block, it pays the window. There is no pool balance to withdraw and no operator to trust with your coins.