Currently you can mine Bitcoin and Zcash on Slush Pool. At this time we don't plan to support other altcoins such as Ethereum (ETH), Monero (XMR), Litecoin (LTC), Dogecoin (DOGE) or others.  We believe that Bitcoin is th...

Hashrate is the amount of hashes computed per second by your mining hardware. You can observe the hashrate of your mining devices in your Slush Pool dashboard. There is a difference between a nominal hashrate shown in the man...

Share is a unit which mining pools use for calculating the work done by a miner. When a mining device is connected to the pool, it receives a computational task to be solved - computing hash values with certain properties (th...

Referrals, dev-fee split, & whitelabeling. Slush Pool Unfortunately, we don’t run a referral program at the moment. Since Slush Pool accounts are free and pseudonymous, it would be hard to prevent abuse of such a program...

NiceHash is a platform where you can buy hash rate which you can then use on our pool to mine - see What is cloud mining? for more information. Yes, Slush Pool is compatible with NiceHash services, meaning you can send hash r...

Sorry, we don’t offer solo mining as an option because we don’t want to dilute the hashrate and “weaken” the pool. The larger the pool, the more stable the rewards will be for all of its users. You can learn more about how po...

We are also using the Bitcoin hashing power to merge mine RSK (rootstock): a smart-contract sidechain (similar to Ethereum) that's based on the Bitcoin blockchain. We believe that sidechains have a lot of potential, which...

We do not require any payments or investments from our users! We are a mining pool service, meaning you need to operate your own hardware and send that computing power to us in order to stabilize your mining rewards. See Intro...

An orphan block (block A) is a valid block, but it is not a part of a blockchain. An orphan block is created when two miners find a valid block (block A and block B) at around the same time and broadcast them both to the netwo...