Your hash. Your pool.
Choice is the whole point.
The pool decides how your hash rate turns into settled Bitcoin — so it shouldn’t be a setting buried in a support ticket. Pick from a lineup of preset pools, or point your machines at your own.
Pool choice is a control you hold — on hardware and packages alike.
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The 20-second pool explainer
Solo, a single machine might wait years to find a block. A pool combines hash rate from thousands of miners, wins blocks continuously, and pays every contributor their share — turning lottery odds into a steady daily settlement. Which pool carries your hash decides whose rules, whose fees, and whose settlement rhythm apply. That’s why it’s your call, not ours.
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Two ways to run it
Follow the reward
Your miner
hashing in a Cuverse DC
Preset pool
F2Pool, ViaBTC, Antpool
Your wallet
saved in your account
The pool settles to the Bitcoin wallet you saved. Cuverse holds no keys, no coins.
Preset: pick a pool from the lineup in the dashboard, and its daily settlements go to the wallet you saved. Simple, visible, reversible.
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The preset lineup
The largest Bitcoin pools, pre-integrated and ready — no accounts to create, no configs to touch. And the lineup keeps growing.
F2Pool
Your machines hash here from day one unless you say otherwise. Zero setup.
ViaBTC
A one-click alternative — same simplicity, a different operator behind the settlements.
Antpool
Same integration, same dashboard flow — your call entirely.
Next in line
Switching is a dashboard action, not a support ticket. Pool choice is one of the controls the platform hands you — like MAX/ECO modes and payout settings — and it works the same on mining hardware and service packages.
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Custom pool – bring your own
For miners with their own rules
Some operations need more than a choice of three: a corporate policy, an existing pool account, or simply the wish to verify output on infrastructure nobody else controls. Custom Pool points your machines at the pool of your choice.
Rewards then settle at your own account at that pool — Cuverse never sees them, never routes them, and couldn't touch them if it wanted to. The strongest form of non-custodial there is.
One habit to keep: since your output settles entirely outside Cuverse, electricity is paid from your prepaid balance as usual — keep it topped up and nothing else changes.
How the switch happens
You request it
Pool address and credentials — from the dashboard.
Engineers reconfigure
Physical reconfiguration in the data center, up to 72 hours.
No dead time
Until cutover, your miner keeps hashing in its previous setup — nothing sits idle.
Live on your pool
Output settles at your pool account. Stats live there too.
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Preset vs custom, honestly
Preset pool
Custom pool
Setup
None — pick in the dashboard
Request + physical reconfiguration, up to 72 h
Where rewards settle
To the Bitcoin wallet saved in your account
At your own account at your pool — fully outside Cuverse
Where you watch stats
Cuverse dashboard
Your pool's own interface (the dashboard keeps hardware telemetry)
During the switch
—
Miner keeps its previous working setup until cutover — no idle days
Works with
Both modes, hardware & packages
Both modes, hardware & packages
Best for
Almost everyone — simplicity with real choice
Pros, corporate policies, independent verification
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Freedom, side by side
Pool conditions aren't static — fees, settlement schemes, and your own strategy shift over time, and the best-fit pool rotates with them. A platform with a welded-on pool can't follow that; a switchable one can:
Period 1
Pool APeriod 2
Pool APeriod 3
Pool CPeriod 4
Pool BPeriod 5
Pool CPeriod 6
Pool BAbstract illustration — no real pools, periods, or conditions depicted. The point survives the abstraction.
Hosted mining, commonly
Cuverse
Pool choice
Assigned by the operator
Preset lineup + your own
Switching
A support ticket — if offered at all
A dashboard action
Your own pool account
Rarely an option
Custom Pool — yes
Where rewards settle
Often at the operator first
At the pool — your wallet, or your own pool account
Why we hand this control over
The pool is your independent witness: it measures your hash rate and settles your Bitcoin whether or not you trust our interface. Preset keeps that witness one click away; Custom makes it entirely yours. A platform that holds your coins can't offer that — a platform that never touches them can.
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Where pool choice plugs in
MAX & ECO modes
Two ways to run the same hardware — switch as the market moves.
Payouts to your wallet
Pool → your address, on your schedule. We hold no keys, no coins.
Loyalty cashback
Tiers reduce your effective energy cost on both infrastructures.
Trial Miner
The $19 week runs the standard preset on purpose. Pool freedom unlocks with your own machine.
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FAQ
- Yes — pool choice is a standing control, not a setup-day decision. Presets switch from the dashboard; moving to a custom pool goes through a request and physical reconfiguration of up to 72 hours, during which your miner keeps working in its previous setup.
- No. MAX and ECO work with any pool, presets and custom alike — the mode decides when your machine runs, the pool decides where its hash goes.
- The trial runs on the standard preset — deliberately zero-decision. Pool choice unlocks with your own hardware or package.
- No — structurally. Output settles at your own account at your pool; Cuverse operates the hardware and never appears in the payment path. That's the point of the feature.
- Each pool sets its own fee and settlement scheme — they're the pool's terms, not ours, and they change over time. Check the current conditions on the pool's site; on a custom pool, whatever you've negotiated with your pool applies.
- Because it's real hardware, not a config flag: machines are re-pointed and verified by engineers in the data center. The up-to-72-hour window covers that work — and the previous setup keeps mining until the moment of cutover.
Mine where you choose
The preset lineup one click away — or your own pool three days away. Either way: your hash, your call, your wallet.
About this page. Figures and features are as of the page date. F2Pool, ViaBTC, and Antpool are independent third-party operators; their names belong to their owners, their fees, settlement schemes, and terms are their own and change over time, and the preset lineup itself may change. Custom Pool availability, eligibility, setup windows (up to 72 hours is an estimate, not a commitment), states, and billing during custom operation are governed by the Custom Pool Addendum and your agreement; where this page and those documents differ, the documents prevail. Reward flows described are structural design, not a promise of any mining result. The “commonly” column describes patterns often seen across hosted mining generally, not any specific provider. Pools listed as “next in line” are plans under evaluation, not commitments or dates; the rotation strip is an abstract illustration depicting no real pools or periods. Pool monograms are placeholders, not official marks. Nothing here is an offer or financial advice.