LMW Pool BTC

Payout Policy & Verification

This page explains how BTC rewards are distributed on LMW Pool BTC, how the payout engine works, and how each payout can be verified through the generated audit JSON.

Confirmed blocks only Transparent payout logic Round + loyalty model Audit JSON generated per block

1. Reward distribution

For each confirmed BTC pool block, the reward is split into four parts.

Component Percentage Recipient Rule
Pool fee 0.5% Pool fee address Always assigned
Winner 89.5% Block winner Uses blocks.miner only
Round bonus 5% Other miners Pro-rata by round shares difficulty
Loyalty bonus 5% Other miners Pro-rata by last 30 days shares difficulty
The winner is excluded from both the Round Bonus and the Loyalty Bonus distributions.

2. Round logic

The Round Bonus is distributed across all miners except the winner, using the sum of shares.difficulty recorded in the round window.

(previous confirmed pool block created, current confirmed pool block created]

If no previous confirmed pool block exists yet, the script uses a fallback window of the last 24 hours to avoid an undefined first round.

The round window is not a 30-day window. The 30-day rolling logic applies only to loyalty.

3. Loyalty logic

The Loyalty Bonus is distributed across all miners except the winner, using the sum of shares.difficulty recorded over the last 30 days.

[now - 30 days, now]

This is a true rolling 30-day window and does not depend on whether the pool has already found previous blocks.

The database must retain at least 30 days of shares for the loyalty bonus to work correctly.

4. Safety rules

  • Payouts are processed only for blocks with status confirmed.
  • If blocks.miner is missing or invalid, payout is skipped.
  • Duplicate payments are avoided through local state tracking and DB marker checks.
  • The script runs in DRY-RUN mode by default.

5. Audit JSON

Every payout run generates a JSON audit file containing block metadata, payout percentages, round and loyalty windows, computed outputs and execution mode.

Once the server directory is exposed through the website, this page can link directly to the real payout JSON files.

6. How to read the audit JSON

  • reward: total block reward used for the payout calculation
  • pct: percentage distribution rule used by the script
  • windows: actual time windows used for round and loyalty
  • round_participants: miners included in round distribution
  • loyalty_participants: miners included in 30-day distribution
  • computed_outputs: final amount assigned to each address
  • dry_run: indicates whether the payout was simulated or executed
  • txid: present only after real execution

Residual amount

BTC payouts are rounded to 8 decimal places. Because each recipient amount is rounded individually, a very small difference may appear between the theoretical total reward and the sum of rounded outputs.

expected_total - rounded_outputs_total = residual

This residual is assigned to the pool fee address so that the final payout total exactly matches the block reward.

7. Contacts

For questions about payouts, listing, configuration or pool access, use one of the contacts below.