Name: ZCD Pool — public payout ledger & live pool statistics
Creator: ZCD Pool

Question 1

What is ZCD Pool?

Accepted Answer

A public mining pool for Zycord (ZCD), a CPU-minable cryptocurrency using the RandomX rx/2 algorithm with 30-second blocks. PPLNS payouts, 1% fee, automatic payouts every 15 minutes with no minimum, no sign-up.

Question 2

How do I start mining ZCD?

Accepted Answer

Install XMRig 6.26+ or SRBMiner and point it at stratum pool.zcd.lol:9425, or port 4333 with TLS. Mine directly to your own ZCD address - no account needed. Step-by-step guide with ready-to-paste configs: https://pool.zcd.lol/start

Question 3

What are the fees and payout scheme?

Accepted Answer

1% fee, PPLNS with a 2-hour share window. Payouts run automatically every 15 minutes with no minimum, paid straight to the address you mine with.

Question 4

What stratum ports are available?

Accepted Answer

pool.zcd.lol:9425 (plaintext) and pool.zcd.lol:4333 (TLS). A solo-direct endpoint pool.zcd.lol:9422 pays each found block straight to the miner with 0% fee.

Question 5

How often are orphan blocks?

Accepted Answer

A small share of found blocks are orphaned (the live figure is on the FAQ page). The pool and its seed node run on the same server, which cuts block-propagation latency.

Question 6

Is there machine-readable pool data?

Accepted Answer

Yes: live stats at /pool-stats/mainnet, NOMP-compatible /api/stats and /api/blocks, and JSON feeds under /api/v1/ for mining-pool directories.

Question 7

How much can I earn mining ZCD?

Accepted Answer

Expected earnings = (your hashrate ÷ network hashrate) × block reward × 2,880 blocks a day, minus the 1% pool fee. The live calculator at https://pool.zcd.lol/calculator applies this formula to real-time network data. Small miners see high day-to-day variance because blocks land randomly.

Question 8

Can I mine ZCD with a GPU or ASIC?

Accepted Answer

No. Zycord uses RandomX rx/2, a CPU-only algorithm — GPUs and ASICs have no advantage. Large-cache AMD Ryzen / EPYC CPUs are the sweet spot; see the hardware guide at https://pool.zcd.lol/hardware.

Question 9

Can I run several rigs on one address?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Add a worker suffix to your address — 0x<your-address>.rig1, .rig2 — and each rig shows up separately in the dashboard while payouts all go to the same address. The ready-to-paste configs on https://pool.zcd.lol/start show the pattern.

Question 10

When is a found block credited and paid?

Accepted Answer

A block matures after 240 confirmations (about 2 hours on the 30-second chain). The reward then enters the next automatic payout round — autopay runs every 15 minutes with no minimum.

Question 11

What data does the pool make public?

Accepted Answer

Live pool stats, every block found, the full per-wallet payout ledger with on-chain certificate ids, an on-chain rich list, and machine-readable APIs (NOMP-compatible /api/stats and /api/blocks plus directory feeds). The FAQ page lists them all.

Question 12

Where is the pool server, and does latency matter?

Accepted Answer

Seoul. RandomX mining submits shares rather than latency-critical packets, and on a 30-second block chain ordinary regional latency has no measurable effect on earnings.

Question 13

Why did my balance stop updating?

Accepted Answer

Balances only grow while your rig submits shares - the pool pays what you mine. Check Miner Lookup with your payout address: the status banner shows when your last share arrived. If it shows OFFLINE, restart your miner: rewards mature in about 2 hours (240 blocks) and the next 15-minute autopay batch sends them, so the first payout lands roughly 2h 15min after restarting.

Question 14

Can anyone verify the payout ledger independently?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Every UTC day the full payout ledger is published at /ledger/YYYY-MM-DD.jsonl and its sha256 is anchored into a contract on the Zycord chain. Anyone can recompute the hash, compare it with the chain through any node, and check that each day links to the previous one - see pool.zcd.lol/ledger/ for a one-command verifier.

Question 15

How do I prove my shares were counted?

Accepted Answer

Every UTC day the pool publishes one line per address (shares delivered, difficulty, ZCD received) and anchors that day's Merkle root in the ShareReceipts contract. Open pool.zcd.lol/ledger/#receipts, paste your payout address, and the page recomputes the root from the published file and compares it with the chain day by day - a single changed byte turns the check into a mismatch.

Question 16

What exactly does ZCD Pool anchor on-chain, and how often?

Accepted Answer

Two contracts, one write per day each: PoolLedger anchors the sha256 of the full payout ledger and chains each day to the previous one; ShareReceipts anchors the Merkle root of the day's per-miner receipts. Neither holds funds or keys, and history is backfilled from day one.