Pools vs solo

Pool mining

Pool mining gives you small, regular payouts. The pool collects shares from many miners and splits each block’s reward between them.

The project pool:

Website	pool.zecnero.org
Stratum	stratum.zecnero.org:3333
Payout scheme	PPLNS
Difficulty	Vardiff (adjusts per miner)
Payout address	Transparent or Sapling
Fee	See the pool site for the current fee

The pool shields its coinbase rewards before paying out. Payouts to a Sapling address stay shielded.

Third-party support

• rplant’s cpuminer 6.0.17 supports rx/zecnero.
• The Rplant pool may list Zecnero. Check their site.

Solo mining

Solo mining means running your own node and mining blocks straight to your own address. You keep the whole subsidy minus the founder output, but on a busy network you can go a long time without finding a block.

Solo mining needs:

1. A synced zecnerod node.
2. A miner that talks to the node through getblocktemplate.

TODO

Document the supported solo mining setup: whether xmrig-zecnero can mine directly against zecnerod (daemon mode), which RPC settings are needed in the node config, and how the miner address is set.

Which one to pick

• Pick a pool if you have one or a few machines and want steady payouts.
• Go solo if you have a lot of hashrate, already run a node, or want to test node and template behaviour.

Coinbase rewards mature after 100 blocks either way, so a found block can’t be spent for about two hours.