How PPLNS rewards are shared

Each job fixes its payout plan from the latest accepted work. The window contains exactly two network blocks of work when enough shares are available. Only the required part of the oldest boundary share counts. A growing window uses the work available. Shares are weighted by their accepted difficulty.

Rewards go directly to miners in the coinbase. The window is fixed when the job is created, before a block is found. New shares count toward future jobs; they cannot change an existing job's payments.

Every whole base unit is allocated deterministically using largest remainders. No miner reserve is held. For an empty window, a miner's first job pays that miner after the pool fee. Coinbase rewards can be tiny; your wallet controls when they are economical to spend.

How SOLO rewards are paid

When your miner finds a valid block that is accepted on the active chain, your wallet receives the block reward minus the 0.5% pool fee. The fee applies to subsidy plus transaction fees. Both payments are included directly in the block's coinbase.

SOLO shares do not enter the PPLNS window. Other miners do not share your SOLO reward. There is no later payout batch or minimum payout threshold. Your wallet can spend the reward after coinbase maturity.