Pool comparison
Braiins Pool vs OCEAN
The durable differences: who carries payout variance, whether you can verify what the pool does, and how long it has honored payouts. Hashrate share moves weekly — check a mempool explorer for today’s picture.
Braiins PoolOCEAN
Payout scheme●FPPSTIDES
Running since●20102023
Origin●Czech RepublicUnited States
Transparent / verifiableYesYes
Lightning payoutsYesYes
● = where they differ
Braiins Pool
The first mining pool ever (as Slush Pool), now Braiins — open-source firmware and Stratum V2 leadership, with Lightning payouts for small miners.
OCEAN
The decentralization-first pool: transparent TIDES payouts direct from the coinbase, miners can build their own block templates. Ideology and product in one.