Step 1
The Finder Earns
When a block is found, the miner who found it receives a tiered finder bonus — up to 96% of the post-fee block reward. A direct, meaningful payout for the work that actually happened.
EMBER is a hybrid mining payout that finally settles the decade-old fight between Solo and PPLNS — by giving every miner what they actually want from each.
For more than a decade, miners have been forced to choose between two imperfect models. Solo pays the block finder almost everything — brilliant when you find a block, ruinous when you don't. PPLNS smooths out the variance into steady income — but it under-rewards the miner who actually did the hard work of finding the block, and dilutes payouts as the pool grows.
Neither one is wrong. They're just incomplete. EMBER fixes that.
A hybrid mechanism. Solo upside for the finder. PPLNS continuity for everyone else. Mathematically fairer than either pure scheme.
When a block is found, the miner who found it receives a tiered finder bonus — up to 96% of the post-fee block reward. A direct, meaningful payout for the work that actually happened.
The remainder — the embers — is split via PPLNS across every other active miner. Steady income continues for the pool, even on the blocks you don't personally find.
The finder's own shares are excluded from the PPLNS split. Every non-finder ends up with a strictly larger slice than under pure PPLNS — a quiet, structural fairness upgrade.
Only miners actively submitting shares for 15 continuous minutes count toward the tier. No drive-by hashrate inflating the headcount and diluting honest miners.
As the pool grows, the finder bonus tapers and the embers expand. Fair payouts at every scale — from the first miner to the thousandth.
For the entire history of crypto mining, small operators have been pushed toward big PPLNS pools to escape the brutal variance of solo mining — trading away the chance of personally finding a block in exchange for steady, but smaller, income.
EMBER ends that trade-off.
You can still find a block. You're still incentivized to find a block — meaningfully. But on the days you don't, you keep earning. And on the days someone else finds the block, you earn more than you would have under pure PPLNS — because the finder's shares are out of the split.
That's not marketing. That's math.
EMBER is live on FenixPool today, across three founding coins. More to follow.
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