📜 Terms of Service

1 Acceptance of Terms

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) constitute a legally binding agreement between you (“User”, “Miner”, “you”, “your”) and SoloPool.Com, its owners, operators, affiliates, and successors (collectively “SoloPool”).

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THESE TERMS, YOU MUST NOT ACCESS OR USE OUR SERVICE.

By connecting your mining equipment to our pool, submitting shares, or otherwise using any aspect of our Service (in any mode — Solo, Prop + Pool, or Solo Split; on any regional endpoint), you:

• Represent that you are at least 18 years of age or the age of majority in your jurisdiction
• Represent that you have the legal capacity to enter into this agreement
• Confirm that your use of the Service complies with all applicable laws and regulations
• Accept ALL RISKS associated with cryptocurrency mining and our Service, across every mode of operation and every regional endpoint described below
• Acknowledge that Solo mining is extremely high risk and most likely will result in no payout
• Acknowledge that Prop + Pool and Solo Split modes carry their own distinct risks, including but not limited to dust-limit loss, offline penalty deweighting, the 48-hour lock on downward ratio changes, and per-region round accounting (see Section 3)
• Acknowledge that your mode is controlled by the stratum password you send, and that misconfiguration is your responsibility

2 Service Description & Modes

SoloPool.Com provides a Bitcoin mining pool service that supports three distinct operational modes, chosen by each user via the stratum password field. Our Service includes:

• Stratum server connectivity for mining operations across multiple regional endpoints
• Real-time mining statistics and monitoring
• Block discovery processing
• Automatic coinbase transaction distribution (98% to miner(s), 2% developer fee)
• Support for multiple Bitcoin networks (Mainnet, Testnet3, Testnet4)

The Three Modes

The Service is provided on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis without any guarantees, regardless of the mode or regional endpoint you operate on.

3 Independent Regional Pools

SoloPool.Com Mainnet is currently served by two independent regional pools, with additional regions planned. Each regional pool runs its own stratifier process, its own bitcoind, and its own Prop + Pool round accounting. The regional pools do not share work, blocks, or rounds.

By using the Service on any regional endpoint, you accept the following operational consequences:

• Each region finds blocks separately. A block found by the US pool pays out only to miners and Prop + Pool round contributors of the US pool at the moment the block was found. A block found by the EU pool pays out only to miners and Prop + Pool round contributors of the EU pool. A miner connected to one region does not share in a block found by another region, regardless of mode.
• Prop + Pool rounds are per region. Your Prop + Pool round contribution accumulates only on the regional endpoint your shares are submitted to. If you are mining via the EU endpoint and the US pool wins a block, the EU round carries forward unchanged and you receive nothing from the US block. The same applies in reverse. There is no cross-region round merge.
• Switching regions does not transfer round contributions. If you reconnect from one regional endpoint to another, your accumulated Prop + Pool round shares on the previous region remain in that region’s round and continue to apply if and when that region’s pool wins a block. Your new region begins from zero round contribution. We do not transfer or merge round contributions across regions.
• Solo mode is regionally agnostic for payout calculation. If you are 100% Solo and find a block on any region, that region’s coinbase transaction pays you 98% of the block reward. You do not need to be connected to a particular region to be eligible for a Solo win — you simply need to have routed the winning share through whichever region you were connected to.
• Solo Split ratio carries across regions; round contributions do not. Your Solo Split percentage is tied to your Bitcoin address (Section 11.1) and applies on every region you connect to. However, the resulting Prop + Pool round contribution is accumulated per region as described above.
• Lifetime statistics are unified. The website displays your combined hashrate, lifetime shares, lifetime accepts/rejects, best-share, and best-ever values across all regions. Only round-payout accounting is per-region.
• Region availability is not guaranteed. Any regional endpoint may become unavailable due to maintenance, hardware failure, network outage, DDoS attack, regulatory action, or any other cause. We are not liable for any loss of round contribution, missed Prop + Pool payouts, or other adverse outcome resulting from regional unavailability.
• Choice of region is yours. We do not direct you to any particular regional endpoint. Selecting a region is your decision and is generally guided by network latency. We are not responsible for advising on region selection.

4 Extreme Risk Warning (All Modes)

YOU CONNECT TO AND USE THIS SERVICE ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK, REGARDLESS OF WHICH MODE OR REGION YOU CHOOSE.

Mode-Specific Risks

Risks That Apply To All Modes

By using SoloPool.Com in any mode and on any regional endpoint, you explicitly acknowledge and assume ALL RISKS including:

• Financial Risk: Complete loss of all mining investment — a possible and, in Solo mode, the most likely outcome
• Probability Risk: You may mine for extended periods without receiving any payout regardless of mode or region
• Technical Risk: Service outages, bugs, errors, or software failures in our pool software, the Bitcoin network, or your own equipment
• Regional Risk: A regional endpoint may become unavailable, causing accumulated round contributions on that region to remain unpaid for extended periods
• Network Risk: Internet issues, DDoS attacks, Bitcoin network disruptions
• Hardware Risk: Equipment failure, damage, overheating, or fire
• Security Risk: Hacking attempts or unauthorized access
• Market Risk: Cryptocurrency price volatility
• Regulatory Risk: Changes in laws affecting cryptocurrency mining
• Electricity Costs: Continuous consumption with no guaranteed return
• Orphaned / Stale Blocks: A block your miner or the pool finds may be reorganized out of the main chain by the Bitcoin network, resulting in no payout
• Misconfiguration Risk: Incorrect Bitcoin address, wrong stratum port, wrong region, wrong password value, or any other user-side error

5 No Warranties or Guarantees

SOLOPOOL.COM EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, whether express, implied, or statutory, including:

• Warranties of merchantability
• Warranties of fitness for a particular purpose
• Warranties of non-infringement
• Warranties of title

We provide NO GUARANTEES that:

• The Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free in any mode or on any region
• You will successfully mine any blocks in Solo mode — YOU MOST LIKELY WILL NOT
• The pool will find blocks during your participation in Prop + Pool or Solo Split mode
• Your Solo Split ratio will be honored exactly as you expect at every moment — the 48-hour lock, the highest-wins merge for concurrent workers, and the offline penalty ramp all may cause your effective ratio to differ from the raw password value
• Your projected payout figures displayed on the Miner Stats or Pool Stats pages are accurate, complete, or predictive of actual outcomes
• Any regional endpoint will remain available for any particular duration
• Any statistics, data, or projections displayed are accurate
• Any defects will be corrected
• Our servers will remain online

6 Complete Limitation of Liability

We are NOT LIABLE for:

• Hardware damages — Any damage to mining equipment or computers
• Bitcoin network issues — Network problems, forks, or blockchain issues
• Computer network issues — Internet connectivity or routing problems
• Pool server outages — Any downtime or server failures, including those affecting one or more regional endpoints
• Regional unavailability — Any loss arising from a regional endpoint being unreachable, including unpaid Prop + Pool round contributions on that region
• Cross-region misunderstanding — Any claim based on the mistaken expectation that a block found on one region pays out round contributions on another region
• Financial loss — Any monetary losses whatsoever
• Loss of blocks found — Orphaned blocks, stale shares, or missed blocks
• Incorrect Bitcoin addresses — User-entered address errors
• Mining on wrong stratum port or wrong region — Connection to incorrect network or regional endpoint
• Inaccurate stats or projections — Any errors in displayed data, including projected “If You Find” and “Pool Share” payout estimates
• Wrong-mode mining — Connecting with the wrong password value, resulting in mining in an unintended mode
• 48-hour lock outcomes — Any claim that a desired ratio decrease should have been allowed sooner; the lock is a documented, non-negotiable feature
• Offline penalty deweighting — Any claim that a worker’s share of a round was unfairly reduced or excluded due to offline time
• Dust-limit rejections — Any claim for a Prop + Pool or Solo Split share that fell below 546 satoshis and was therefore not included in the block
• Round stat resets — Any claim for round contributions lost when an allowed Solo Split decrease reset round stats
• Loss of profits, revenue, or cryptocurrency
• Electricity costs or equipment depreciation
• Any other form of liability whatsoever

Our total aggregate liability shall not exceed $1.00 USD, in any mode, on any region, for any reason.

7 Indemnification

You agree to FULLY INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS SoloPool.Com from:

• All claims, damages, losses, costs, and expenses
• Any claims arising from your use of the Service in any mode or on any region
• Your violation of these Terms or any laws
• Any damage caused by your mining activities
• Tax obligations from your mining activities, including any tax treatment implications of Solo vs Prop + Pool vs Solo Split payouts and any cross-region considerations

8 User Responsibilities

You are SOLELY RESPONSIBLE for:

• Wallet Security: Maintaining security of your Bitcoin wallet and keys
• Address Accuracy: Ensuring the correct payout address — we cannot recover funds sent to wrong addresses
• Correct Network: Connecting to the correct stratum port for your intended network (mainnet, testnet3, testnet4)
• Correct Region: Selecting the regional endpoint you intend to mine on. Round contributions accumulate per region; selecting a different region does not transfer or merge prior round contributions.
• Correct Mode: Sending the intended stratum password value for the mode you want (Solo, Prop + Pool, or Solo Split). We are not responsible for mining performed in a mode other than the one you intended because of a typo or misconfiguration.
• Understanding the 48-hour lock: Before increasing your Solo %, understand that you will be unable to decrease it for 48 hours. Plan changes accordingly.
• Worker uptime: If you intend to receive Prop + Pool round payouts, keeping your workers online. Prolonged offline periods reduce or eliminate your share via the offline penalty ramp.
• Equipment: Proper configuration and maintenance of your mining equipment
• Legal Compliance: Ensuring your activities comply with laws in your jurisdiction
• Tax Obligations: All tax liabilities from mining rewards, across all modes and regions
• Understanding Risks: Fully understanding the risks of Solo, Prop + Pool, and Solo Split mining as described in Section 4 before connecting, and the per-region behavior described in Section 3

9 Fees and Payments

Fees are non-refundable. Payments are irreversible once confirmed on the blockchain.

We reserve the right to modify the developer fee at any time, with reasonable notice. Continued use of the Service after a fee change constitutes acceptance.

10 No Pool Wallet — Direct Payouts

• In Solo mode: 98% of the block reward goes to your address.
• In Prop + Pool mode: 98% is divided in the coinbase transaction among all participating miners of the winning round on that region, proportional to contribution.
• In Solo Split mode: the coinbase transaction distribution matches whichever path (Solo or Prop + Pool) found the block, and applies on the region where the winning share was submitted.
• 2% of every block reward goes to the SoloPool developer address via the same coinbase transaction.
• No intermediary wallet, no withdrawal process, no minimum threshold beyond Bitcoin’s network-level 546-satoshi dust limit on individual coinbase outputs.
• No account creation, no KYC, no withdrawal requests — ever.

11 Solo Split Operational Rules

This section describes operational rules specific to Solo Split mode and to the Prop + Pool portion of any user’s activity. By mining in any mode other than pure Solo, you accept these rules as part of your agreement with SoloPool.

11.1 Mode is Per Bitcoin Address

Your mode (expressed as a Solo % value from 0 to 100) is tied to your Bitcoin address, not to individual workers and not to a specific region. If multiple workers under the same address connect with different password values, the highest value (the most-Solo one) is applied to the entire address. Workers sending lower values are silently forced to the higher effective Solo %.

11.2 Increases Are Instant

Increasing your Solo % (for example, 25 → 80) takes effect on your next share. Your accumulated Prop + Pool round shares prior to the increase are preserved in the per-region round accounting they were submitted to.

11.3 48-Hour Lock on Decreases

Every increase in Solo % starts a 48-hour lock. During that window, any attempt to decrease your Solo % (including sending a lower password value on reconnect) is silently ignored. Your miner continues to operate at the higher Solo %. No error is returned to your miner; the pool simply does not apply the decrease.

After 48 hours have elapsed since the most recent increase, a decrease is allowed. When a decrease takes effect, your current round statistics (round shares, round best-share, round difficulty) on every region are reset to zero. Any round contribution you had accumulated before the decrease is lost for round-distribution purposes. You are not entitled to compensation, back-credit, or any other remedy for this reset.

11.4 Offline Penalty Ramp

To protect active miners from freeloading by offline or rented hashrate, each worker is subject to an offline penalty ramp:

• 0–4 hours offline: 0% penalty (grace period)
• 4–48 hours offline: penalty ramps from 0% toward 100%
• 48 hours or more offline: 100% penalty — the worker is excluded from Prop + Pool round accounting until it comes back online and its grace period restarts

The penalty is applied automatically at template build time and reduces your effective weight in the Prop + Pool round on the region where the worker most recently submitted shares. You have no recourse to reverse a penalty that was correctly applied based on your worker’s offline time. Penalty values displayed on the Miner Stats page are subject to rounding and caching; the authoritative penalty applied at payout time is the value computed by the pool server at the moment the winning share is submitted.

11.5 Dust Limit

Bitcoin’s network consensus rules require every coinbase transaction output to be at least 546 satoshis. If, at the moment a Prop + Pool or Solo Split round wins on a given region, your computed share of the 98% would produce an output below 546 satoshis:

• That output is not included in the coinbase transaction.
• You receive nothing for that round, even though you contributed shares.
• Your excluded share is not redistributed to you in any later round. It is effectively added to the other miners’ shares or to the developer fee at the time of block construction.

Dust projections are displayed on the Miner Stats page with a “⚠ DUST” warning. You are responsible for monitoring your projected share and for understanding that very small hashrate in pure Prop + Pool mode may regularly fall below the dust threshold.

11.6 Projected Payout Figures Are Estimates

The “If You Find a Block” and “Pool Share” figures displayed on your Miner Stats page are projections based on the current round state and your current Solo Split ratio, computed per region. They are not guarantees. Actual payout amounts are computed at the moment a block is found on a particular region and can differ from displayed projections due to:

• Other miners joining or leaving the round
• Offline penalty changes
• Round stat resets from allowed Solo Split decreases
• Coinbase transaction size or network constraints
• Dust-limit exclusion
• Block orphaning or reorganization
• Software bugs or caching delays in the statistics pipeline

We make no representation that projected figures will equal actual payouts.

11.7 Solo-Found Blocks Do Not Trigger Prop + Pool Payouts

To eliminate any ambiguity: the Prop + Pool round only distributes a block reward when the winning share was routed to the Prop + Pool. If a miner in pure Solo mode — or the Solo-routed portion of a Solo Split miner — finds a block, that block’s coinbase transaction pays 98% to the finder’s address alone (plus the 2% developer fee). No Prop + Pool distribution occurs for that block.

You may observe on the statistics page that “the pool” found a block and still receive no payout, because “the pool” on the statistics page may refer to any miner connected through SoloPool.Com on any region, while Prop + Pool payouts require (a) the block to have been found via a Prop-Pool-routed share specifically, and (b) the share to have been submitted on the same regional endpoint where you accumulated your round contribution. This is not a malfunction; it is the fundamental distinction between Solo mining and Prop + Pool mining, preserved across modes and regions.

Your Prop + Pool round contribution is not lost when a Solo-found block occurs — it remains in the round accounting on its region and continues to apply to that region’s next block. However, if the pool composition is dominated by Solo miners, extended periods may pass in which no Prop-Pool-routed winning share occurs, during which no Prop + Pool distribution will happen regardless of how active the pool overall appears.

11.8 Authoritative Source of Truth

In any dispute about mode, ratio, region, round share, penalty, or payout, the authoritative source of truth is the pool server’s internal state at the time of block construction on the relevant region and the resulting coinbase transaction as recorded on the Bitcoin blockchain. Displayed figures on the website, documentation, FAQs, and third-party tools are for convenience only and are not authoritative.

12 Service Availability

We offer NO GUARANTEE regarding availability, uptime, or reliability in any mode or on any region.

The Service may be unavailable due to maintenance, hardware failures, software bugs, network outages, DDoS attacks, natural disasters, or government actions. Outages may occur at any time without notice and may affect one or more regional endpoints independently.

If a regional endpoint is unavailable during an active round, any in-progress round contribution you have accumulated on that region may be lost, delayed, or distributed differently when service resumes. We are not liable for any such loss or distribution outcome.

We reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue the Service or any individual regional endpoint at any time without notice.

13 Security

We CANNOT GUARANTEE security. No system is completely secure. We are not liable for security breaches, data loss, or unauthorized access to the Service.

Stratum connections are unencrypted by default (industry standard for Bitcoin mining). Passwords sent to the stratum server (including Solo Split ratio values) are not confidential and should not contain any sensitive information beyond the ratio value itself.

14 Termination

We may terminate or suspend your access at any time, for any reason or no reason, without notice. Upon termination:

• Pending shares may be forfeited with no compensation.
• Any in-progress Prop + Pool round contributions on any region may be lost.
• No pro-rated refund or partial payout is owed.

15 Privacy and Data

Bitcoin addresses, mining statistics, worker identifiers, regional endpoint usage, and block-finder information are publicly visible on our statistics pages and on the Bitcoin blockchain. By using the Service, you acknowledge that these data points are effectively public.

We do not sell personal information, store private keys, or have access to your wallet funds. We do retain mining statistics for operational and historical purposes.

16 Modifications to Terms

We may modify these Terms at any time, including but not limited to changes to mode behavior, the developer fee, the offline penalty ramp, the Solo Split 48-hour lock duration, the dust-limit handling rules, and the set of regional endpoints offered. Continued use of the Service after any such modification constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms. It is your responsibility to review these Terms regularly.

17 Dispute Resolution

ARBITRATION AGREEMENT: Any dispute arising from or related to the Service or these Terms — including disputes about mode behavior, regional endpoint behavior, Solo Split ratios, 48-hour lock outcomes, offline penalties, dust-limit exclusions, cross-region payout expectations, or projected vs actual payout amounts — shall be resolved through binding arbitration. Class actions are prohibited. You waive jury trial rights.

18 Force Majeure

We are not liable for failures due to acts of God, war, government actions, power failures, internet outages, pandemics, Bitcoin network forks or chain reorganizations, cryptocurrency exchange failures, regional data-center outages, or any other events outside our reasonable control.

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