Pool comparison
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.
● = where they differ
OCEAN
The decentralization-first pool: transparent TIDES payouts direct from the coinbase, miners can build their own block templates. Ideology and product in one.
Solo CKPool
Solo mining as a service: win a block, keep (almost) the whole reward; win nothing, earn nothing. Famous for the occasional David-vs-Goliath block find.