How Are Payments Structured for Renting Hashrate Compared to a Mining Pool’s PPLNS Scheme?

Hashrate rental payments are typically a fixed fee, paid upfront, based on the requested hashrate and duration (e.g. X BTC per TH/s per hour).

This is a direct service cost. In contrast, a mining pool's PPLNS (Pay-Per-Last-N-Shares) scheme pays miners based on the shares they have submitted over a rolling window of "N" shares.

PPLNS ties payment to the pool's actual success and the miner's recent contribution, unlike the fixed-rate, result-agnostic nature of rental.