Mining-Pool Payout Wait-Time Calculator

How long until a mining pool actually pays out at your hashrate? This calculator answers that with pure arithmetic: your share of the live Bitcoin network times the daily block reward, minus the pool fee, measured against each pool’s own published payout minimum. Pick your hardware, choose a pool from our open database, and see the wait in days, weeks, months or years. Every figure is a live-snapshot estimate, not a ranking — verify current thresholds at each pool’s source.

Quick answer

At about 1.2 TH/s (a Bitaxe), on today's network (~869 EH/s, block reward ~3.1409 BTC) you'd earn roughly 0.00000062 BTC/day, so reaching a 0.001 BTC on-chain payout minimum would take about 4.4 years — before pool fees. A 200 TH/s S21 reaches the same minimum in about 10 days. The fix for small hashers is not a "better" pool but a lower bar: a Lightning-payout pool (no minimum) or a solo/share-chain pool that pays the whole block if you get lucky. Every figure here is a live-snapshot estimate — verify current thresholds at each pool's source.

Payout wait = pool minimum ÷ your expected daily BTC. Your daily BTC is your share of the network times the daily block reward, minus the pool fee. Nothing here is a ranking or a guarantee — pool economics move. Not financial advice.

Time to reach a pool payout minimum, by hardware — gross of pool fees, at ~869 EH/s (snapshot 2026-07-27)

Hardware	Hashrate	Est. BTC / day	To 0.0001 BTC	To 0.001 BTC
Bitaxe	1.2 TH/s	0.00000062	5.3 months	4.4 years
Antminer S9	13.5 TH/s	0.00000702	2.0 weeks	4.7 months
Antminer S19	95 TH/s	0.00004943	3 days	2.9 weeks
S19 XP	141 TH/s	0.00007337	2 days	14 days
Antminer S21	200 TH/s	0.00010407	under a day	10 days
S21 Pro	234 TH/s	0.00012176	under a day	9 days

Gross estimate: your share of the network × the daily block reward, before any pool fee. A pool fee lengthens every wait slightly; a solo or share-chain pool has no accumulation threshold at all (you're paid the whole block, but only if you find one). Use the tool below to apply a specific pool's fee and minimum.

Your hashrate (TH/s) Pool (from our 23-pool database) Payout minimum (BTC)

Small-miner-friendly paths

If you're running Bitaxe-class hardware, multi-year waits to an on-chain minimum are normal. These options in our dataset pay small hashers far sooner — a Lightning payout has no minimum, and a very low threshold clears in a fraction of the time:

AntPool — Lightning payouts (no on-chain minimum) · verify at source
Binance Pool — minimum 0.0001 BTC · verify at source
Braiins Pool — Lightning payouts (no on-chain minimum) · verify at source
OCEAN — Lightning payouts (no on-chain minimum) · verify at source

Solo and share-chain pools (CKPool, Public Pool, P2Pool, and the self-hosted options) have no accumulation threshold either — you receive the entire block reward directly, but only when you find a block. See self-hosted solo mining for the sovereign path, and OCEAN's non-custodial TIDES/DATUM model in the pool database.

Method & caveats. Wait = pool minimum ÷ expected daily BTC. Expected daily BTC = (your TH/s ÷ network TH/s) × 144 × block reward × (1 − pool fee). Network hashrate (~869 EH/s) and the fee-inclusive block reward (~3.1409 BTC) come from D-Central's live hashprice feed (snapshot 2026-07-27). This is the standard FPPS-style estimate that includes average transaction fees; a pure-PPS pool pays roughly the block subsidy only (about 3.125 BTC), so slightly less. It ignores difficulty drift, variance, and the exact payout cadence. Every number is an estimate from a moving snapshot, not a ranking or a guarantee — pool fees and minimums change; verify current thresholds at each pool's official source before routing hashrate. Pool data is single-source from the D-Central mining-pool database (23 pools). Compare payout schemes (PPS/FPPS/PPLNS) in the pool payout calculator.

Frequently asked questions

How long until a mining pool actually pays me?

It depends on your hashrate versus the pool's payout minimum. The wait is the pool minimum divided by your expected daily BTC, where your daily BTC is your share of the total network hashrate times the daily block reward, minus the pool fee. At a network hashrate near 869 EH/s, a 1.2 TH/s Bitaxe takes several years to reach a 0.001 BTC minimum, a 13.5 TH/s S9 takes a few months, and a 200 TH/s S21 takes about ten days.

Why does a Bitaxe take years to reach a payout minimum?

Because its 1.2 TH/s is a vanishingly small share of a network doing roughly 869 exahashes per second. Your expected reward scales directly with your share of that total, so a tiny hasher accumulates BTC extremely slowly. This is arithmetic, not a flaw in any particular pool.

How can a small miner get paid sooner?

Lower the bar rather than chase a "better" pool. A Lightning-payout pool has no on-chain minimum, so you can be paid tiny amounts continuously. A very low on-chain threshold clears far faster than a 0.001 BTC minimum. And a solo or share-chain pool has no accumulation threshold at all — you receive the entire block reward directly, but only in the block you actually find, which for small hardware is a rare, high-variance event.

Do these wait times include pool fees?

The interactive calculator applies the selected pool's fee (FPPS if published, otherwise PPLNS or PPS+, and 0% is assumed and flagged when a pool does not disclose one). The default preset table is gross of fees. A fee only lengthens the wait, so the fee-inclusive figure is always at least as long as the gross figure.

Are these payout wait times guaranteed?

No. Every figure is an estimate from a live snapshot of network hashrate and the block reward, and it ignores difficulty changes, reward variance, and each pool's exact payout cadence. Pool fees and minimums also change. Treat the output as a rough planning estimate and verify current thresholds at each pool's official source before routing hashrate.

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Last reviewed July 26, 2026.