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SBI Crypto
The Japanese financial group’s mining pool — an institutional operator with a lower profile than its scale suggests.
Payout schemeFPPS
Running since2017
OriginJapan
Transparent / verifiableConventional-custodial
Lightning payoutsOn-chain only
The longer story
SBI Crypto is the mining arm of Japan’s SBI financial group — a top-ten pool run by a conventional financial institution, with a public profile far smaller than its hashrate. It offers standard FPPS mining with institutional-grade counterparty structure.
It suits miners, particularly in Asia, who want a large traditional-finance-backed operator. There is little community tooling or ideology here; it is infrastructure run by a bank, with everything that implies in both directions.
Quick answers
- How does SBI Crypto pay miners?
- SBI Crypto uses FPPS — the pool pays expected value per share including fees, so the pool carries block-finding variance, not you.
- How long has SBI Crypto been operating?
- SBI Crypto has operated since 2017 (Japan) — in mining, payout track record is the trust signal that matters most.
- Is SBI Crypto transparent, and does it support Lightning payouts?
- Its accounting is conventional-custodial: you trust the operator’s numbers, as with most large pools. Payouts are on-chain only.
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