How long does the pool keep your coins?
How long the pool holds your coins: why a balance exists, when it pays out each hour, and what happens to a balance below the minimum payout.
How long does the pool hold your coins?
Only as long as the payout schedule needs. The pool is a conveyor toward your wallet, not a place where coins live.
- Your confirmed balance is paid automatically every hour, once it reaches the minimum payout.
- There is no account to log into.
- There is no withdraw button, and you never have to ask for your own money.
One exception applies. A payout converted to Bitcoin or Monero, on the coins where HeroMiners offers one, waits for the daily conversion. Until then it sits on an exchange and in the pool's payout wallet.
Why is there a balance at all?
Two honest delays sit between a share and a payout.
- Block maturity. The network requires a found block to be buried under further blocks before its reward can be spent. That is why your dashboard splits Immature Balance (still maturing) from Pending Balance (payable).
- The payout minimum. Sending tiny amounts every hour would waste more in transaction fees than it delivers. So a payout waits until your confirmed balance clears the minimum shown on the site.
What happens to a balance below the minimum?
It simply waits and keeps growing. It does not expire, it is not swept, and it needs no activity to stay yours.
If you stop mining with a balance under the minimum, it stays attached to your address. Open your dashboard with your address to see the current minimum and your balance at any time.
How can you check all of this?
Every payout the pool has ever sent is public on the Payments page. Each one shows its transaction hash, which you can check on the block explorer.
Your own dashboard shows your Immature and Pending balances and your full payout history. A custody policy you can check beats one you have to trust.