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ZEC
Node —
Fee 0.25%
Paid from coinbase
Scheme PPLNS + SOLO
t1… address. Why, and what to use →Rabid Pool never holds your ZEC. When a block is found, your share is written straight into that block’s coinbase transaction and paid to your own t1… address by the Zcash network itself. There is no pool wallet, no balance sitting with us, and nothing to withdraw.
Why it matters: the major ZEC pools we checked in September 2026 — 2Miners, ViaBTC, F2Pool, Luxor and Binance Pool — are all custodial. The block pays their wallet and they send you coins later, once you reach their payout threshold. As far as we know, Rabid Pool is the only non-custodial ZEC PPLNS pool.
| Block | Found | Found by | Pool effort | Finder effort | Reward | To miners | Pool fee | Miners paid | Coinbase tx | Status |
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| Block time | — |
| Blocks / day | — |
| ZEC to miners / day whole network, excl. dev fund | — |
| Value / day at live price | — |
| Rabid Pool's share of network | — |
| # | Address | Hashrate | Share | Workers | Blocks (30 d) |
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| # | Address | Hashrate | Workers | Last share | SOLO blocks 30 d |
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Rabid Pool does not cap its share of network hashrate. Mine as much as you want here — there is no self-imposed limit.
| # | Address | Hashrate | Share of pool | Workers | Blocks earned 30 d |
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Every miner is weighted by the difficulty of the shares they submitted, not the number — a small ASIC on low difficulty and a large one on high difficulty are compared on equal terms. PPLNS only — SOLO miners mine their own rounds and are listed separately below.
| # | Address | Hashrate | Workers | Last share | SOLO blocks 30 d |
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SOLO miners mine their own independent rounds. Their work never enters the PPLNS window, and a solved block pays that miner's address directly.
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Every coin a Zcash pool pays you comes out of a coinbase (newly mined) transaction, and Zcash’s consensus rules say newly mined coins must be shielded — moved into a shielded address — before they can be sent anywhere else. Only a wallet you control can do that step. An exchange deposit address can’t, so the exchange won’t credit the deposit and usually can’t recover it for you — treat those coins as lost. This is a Zcash network rule, not a Rabid Pool rule.
What to do instead:
t1 — and use it as your miner username.Why don’t other ZEC pools warn about this? Nearly all of them are custodial: the block pays their wallet, they shield it themselves, then send you ordinary ZEC later — so an exchange address works there, but the pool holds your coins until it pays. Rabid Pool never holds your coins: the block pays your address directly, so the shielding step is yours. We also can’t detect an exchange address — it looks exactly like any other t1 address — so the pool will accept it and pay it. Check before you connect.
| If you’re… | Use |
|---|---|
| Mining with your own hardware, sharing blocks with the pool | :9633 — PPLNS |
| Mining with your own hardware, going for a whole block yourself | :9634 — SOLO |
| Pointing rented hashpower at us (MiningRigRentals, NiceHash) | the same :9633 PPLNS or :9634 SOLO |
No separate rental ports on ZEC. Every connection starts at difficulty 128 and vardiff settles within about a minute — a MiningRigRentals rental was tested on both ports before launch. Add d= to the password (for example d=512) if your rental service wants a higher starting difficulty.
On port 9634 your miner gets its own coinbase: if your hashrate solves a block, that block pays your address 99.75% of the whole reward and the pool 0.25%, in the block itself. Nothing is shared with other miners and nothing waits on a payout window — but between blocks you earn nothing, so at ordinary hashrate expect very long gaps.
Same username rules as PPLNS: your t1… address as the username, optional .worker, password x or d=512. A Zcash coinbase can’t carry a separate SOLO tag, so SOLO blocks pay the pool’s 1% to their own fee address, t1fR6d759h4842cPZxaRguPUfQpqhh4299Q — anyone can tell a Rabid SOLO block from a PPLNS one on a block explorer.
YourT1Address.WorkerNamex — or d=512 to raise the starting difficulty9633 / 9634; d= can only raise the difficultyNo signup, no account, no dashboard login — your payout address is your identity. Paste it as the username and start hashing. Transparent t1… or t3… only — shielded (zs1…), unified (u1…) and TEX (tex1…) addresses are refused at connect, because a block’s coinbase pays transparent addresses. Use your own wallet’s address, never an exchange’s — see the warning above.
t1… address as the username. Same pool, same payouts, same 1% fee. Braiins Hashpower is SHA-256 only, so it can’t rent Equihash.
Payouts land as transparent ZEC — press Shield in your wallet before sending them anywhere (Zcash rule for mined coins). Want block alerts on your phone? Open the Rabid Pool app — free, no sign-up, just your address.
| Block | Found | You received | Worth when found | Worth now | Status |
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“Worth when found” uses the exchange price at the time the block was found; “worth now” uses today’s price. Coins are exactly what the block paid you.
| Worker | 10 m | Reject 24 h | Last share | Status | Trend |
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Pool-wide numbers — hashrate, blocks found, fee taken, top miners — are on the Coins page.
No — you will not get your coins. Every coin a Zcash pool pays you comes out of a coinbase (newly mined) transaction, and Zcash’s consensus rules say newly mined coins must be shielded — moved into a shielded address — before they can be sent anywhere else. Only a wallet you control can do that step. An exchange deposit address can’t, so the exchange won’t credit the deposit and usually can’t recover it for you — treat those coins as lost. This is a Zcash network rule, not a Rabid Pool rule.
t1 — and use it as your miner username.Why don’t other ZEC pools warn about this? Nearly all of them are custodial: the block pays their wallet, they shield it themselves, then send you ordinary ZEC later — so an exchange address works there, but the pool holds your coins until it pays. Rabid Pool never holds your coins: the block pays your address directly, so the shielding step is yours. We also can’t detect an exchange address — it looks exactly like any other t1 address — so the pool will accept it and pay it. Check before you connect.
Shielding moves ZEC from a transparent (t1…) address into your wallet’s shielded balance. Zcash requires it for newly mined coins before they can be spent. In Zashi / Zodl, Ledger Wallet, Ywallet and Zingo it’s one button; the network fee is about 0.0001 ZEC. After that you can send to anyone, exchanges included. Rabid Pool’s 0.001 ZEC payout floor keeps every payout at least ten times that fee.
Your own wallet’s transparent address, starting t1 (or t3). Shielded (zs1…), unified (u1…) and TEX (tex1…) addresses are refused at connect, because a coinbase pays transparent addresses. Most wallets show a unified address first; look for “transparent address” on the Receive screen.
Equihash 200,9 ASICs — Antminer Z15 / Z15 Pro and similar — or rented Equihash hashpower from MiningRigRentals or NiceHash. GPUs are far too slow to matter on Zcash today.
Coinbase outputs mature at 100 confirmations. At Zcash’s ~75-second block time that’s about 2 hours. Then shield them in your wallet.
Each block creates 1.5625 ZEC. By Zcash’s rules 1.25 ZEC goes to miners and the rest funds Zcash development (part paid in the block to a development-fund address, part held in a protocol lockbox). Rabid Pool never touches the development-fund share. Of the 1.25 ZEC plus transaction fees, the pool keeps 0.25% (launch price until Oct 28, 2026, then 1%) and the rest is split across miners by their PPLNS shares, in the block itself.
Two different numbers, both on your stats page. Blocks your workers solved is how many blocks your hardware submitted the winning solution for — a vanity stat. Blocks you earned from is the one that matters: every block where your shares were in the PPLNS window pays you, whoever solved it.
Yes, on-chain. Zcash miners never see the coinbase (the pool sends a finished header), so check after the fact: every block in Recent Rabid Pool blocks links its coinbase transaction, and your address appears in it with the amount the pool page shows.
Yes. Point your miner or rental at stratum+tcp://zec.rabidmining.com:9634 with your t1 address. A block your hashrate solves pays your address 99.75% of the miner reward and the pool 0.25%, directly in its coinbase. Solo is all-or-nothing: at small hashrate the wait between blocks is very long — PPLNS on :9633 smooths that out.
No. Your payout is written into each block’s coinbase and paid to your own t1 address by the network — the pool never holds your ZEC, and there is nothing to withdraw. As far as we know it is the only non-custodial ZEC PPLNS pool; the big ZEC pools pay their own wallet first and send you coins later. The one catch: you must shield mined ZEC in your own wallet, so never mine to an exchange address.
No. This pool runs with no hashrate cap.
No. Zcash is its own chain with its own proof-of-work (Equihash 200,9), its own addresses and its own privacy features. Rabid Pool is an independent project, not affiliated with the Electric Coin Company, the Zcash Foundation or Zcash Community Grants.
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