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What Is the Role of a ‘Mining Pool’ in Decentralized Networks?

A mining pool is a collaborative group of individual miners who combine their computational power (hash rate) to increase their probability of finding a valid block. When the pool finds a block, the reward is distributed among all participants proportional to the work they contributed.

This mechanism reduces the variance in income, providing a more stable revenue stream for individual miners.

How Does the Hash Rate Contribute to a Miner’s Probability of Finding a Block?
What Is a ‘Mining Pool’ and Its Purpose?
Are Miner Rewards Considered Income for Tax Purposes?
How Does a Staking Pool Operate?