PPS, FPPS or Solo?

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PPS, FPPS and Solo: what they mean and when miners get paid

February 5, 2026 by NushyPool

At NushyPool you can mine with three payout styles: PPS, FPPS and Solo. PPS and Solo are available for the regular pools. FPPS is currently experimental and available only for Pearl (PRL).

In short: PPS shares confirmed pool blocks, FPPS gives Pearl miners smoother credit for accepted work, and Solo is all-or-nothing.

PPS mining
PPS mining
Pool rewards shared after confirmed blocks
FPPS mining
FPPS mining
Pearl only, smoother credited earnings
Solo mining
Solo mining
Rarer, but larger rewards


What is a share?

  • A share is a small accepted piece of work sent by your miner. It proves that your miner is doing real work for the pool.
  • A mining round is the work period connected to finding a block. In normal pool mining, rewards are connected to this round. In Pearl FPPS, accepted work can be credited without waiting for a pool block from that exact moment.


PPS: the pool shares block rewards

With PPS, miners work together. When the pool finds a block and that block is confirmed by the network, the reward is shared between the miners who helped during that mining round.

  • Example: Alice and Bob mine in the same pool. Alice sends fewer, stronger shares. Bob sends more, smaller shares. The pool looks at the real work behind those shares, not only the number of lines in the share list.
  • This is why a miner with fewer accepted shares can sometimes earn the same as, or more than, a miner with more accepted shares.


FPPS: Pearl miners get credited for accepted work

FPPS is currently available only for Pearl (PRL) on NushyPool. It replaces the old Pearl PPS pool on the same public pool port. When your Pearl miner sends accepted work, the pool records it and gives it a value for your FPPS balance after a short safety delay.

You do not have to wait for NushyPool to find a Pearl block before your accepted work has value. The pool still needs real Pearl block rewards over time, but FPPS makes the miner experience smoother by moving more of the timing risk from the miner to the pool.

  • The value of accepted Pearl work can move over time. If the Pearl network becomes harder or easier, the pool adjusts what new accepted work is worth.
  • For miners, the experience is simple: keep the miner connected, submit accepted shares, and watch your Pearl FPPS balance grow from accepted work.


Solo: the reward is yours if you find the block

With Solo you mine on your own. Only your valid shares count. If you are the one who finds the block, you receive the entire reward. If the block is found by another miner, you receive no reward.



Examples

PPS example: Alice and Bob mine together until the pool finds a block.
  • Alice submits 2 shares:
    • one accepted share with assigned difficulty 300
    • another accepted share with assigned difficulty 300
    Alice's total accepted share difficulty: 300 + 300 = 600.
  • Bob submits 3 shares:
    • one accepted share with assigned difficulty 100
    • another accepted share with assigned difficulty 100
    • one more accepted share with assigned difficulty 100
    Bob's total accepted share difficulty: 100 + 100 + 100 = 300.
For this illustrative example, Alice and Bob are the only miners in the round, all share difficulties use the same coin's units, the confirmed block reward before the pool fee is R = 100 coins, and the pool fee is f = 1% = 0.01. Total accepted round difficulty: 600 + 300 = 900.
Formula for this confirmed-round distribution: miner reward = R × (1 − f) × D_miner / D_round, where D_miner is the sum of that miner's accepted share difficulties and D_round is the sum for all miners in the round.
Alice: 100 × (1 − 0.01) × 600 / 900 = 66 coins.
Bob: 100 × (1 − 0.01) × 300 / 900 = 33 coins.
The pool fee is 1 coin: 66 + 33 + 1 = 100. Alice submitted fewer shares, but twice as much difficulty-weighted work, so she receives twice Bob's reward. Rejected shares do not count. These are illustrative values, excluding referral bonuses; actual amounts are rounded to the coin's smallest unit.
FPPS example: Alice mines Pearl for one hour.
  • During that hour, Alice's miner sends accepted Pearl shares to NushyPool.
  • Each accepted share receives a small value at the current Pearl FPPS rate.
  • Some shares can be worth more than others because they represent more work.
  • Even if NushyPool does not find a Pearl block during that exact hour, Alice can still receive FPPS credit for her accepted work.
  • Bob joins later with more hashrate and sends accepted shares faster.
  • Bob will normally earn faster while he is mining, but Alice's earlier accepted work is still credited to Alice.
Solo example
  • If your miner finds the block, you receive the full miner reward after the block is accepted. If another miner finds the block, or nobody finds a block, you do not receive a Solo reward for that period.


Which should you choose?

For regular NushyPool coins, PPS is the simple pool option: miners work together and rewards are shared after blocks are found and confirmed. Solo is for miners who want to take more risk for a chance at a full block reward.

For Pearl (PRL), the old PPS pool has been replaced by FPPS for now. If you mine Pearl and want smoother credited earnings, use FPPS. If you want the full block only when your own miner finds it, use Solo.

Good luck!

Regards, NushyPool