Bitcoin pool minimum payout: where 100 TH/s gets paid fastest

A pool's fee sets how much you earn. Its minimum payout sets when that money reaches your own address. With a single 100 TH/s ASIC, the second number often matters more. Fees across pools differ by a few percent. Thresholds in this sample differ by a factor of a thousand, from 0.00001 BTC to 0.01 BTC.

Below are the thresholds of 12 pools, each linked to the pool's own page with a check date, plus the formula for days to payout and a breakdown of which threshold suits which hashrate.

What is the minimum payout at bitcoin mining pools?

Default thresholds in our sample run from 0.00001 to 0.01 BTC. NiceHash is lowest at 0.00001 BTC, paid to its internal wallet. EMCD, Promminer and Tpool sit at 0.0001 BTC. ViaBTC, Luxor, Trustpool, Neopool and Kryptex Pool need 0.001 BTC, AntPool and F2Pool 0.005 BTC, and Foundry USA 0.01 BTC. Checked 2026-08-18 and 2026-09-09.

Table: payout thresholds by pool

*The multiple reflects the threshold alone at equal net income. Pool fees differ, so real waits drift from it by a few percent.

Pool terms change. Check the threshold in your pool dashboard before you point hashrate at it.

How many days until payout at 100 TH/s?

One formula covers it: days = threshold / net BTC per day. Net daily income at 100 TH/s is 100 × BTC earned per TH per day × (1 − pool fee). A 0.0001 BTC threshold therefore pays ten times sooner than 0.001 BTC and fifty times sooner than 0.005 BTC, on the same machine and roughly the same fee.

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days to payout = threshold (BTC) / (hashrate TH/s × BTC per TH per day × (1 − fee))

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• Hashprice reference: 0.00050227 BTC per PH/s per day on 2026-08-31 (Hashrate Index, hashrateindex.com), about 0.00005 BTC per day at 100 TH/s before fees.
• With a 4% fee (typical for FPPS): a 0.0001 BTC threshold takes about 2 days, 0.001 BTC about 21 days, 0.005 BTC about 104 days, 0.01 BTC about 207 days.

The quickest route is to enter your own hashrate and fee in the mining profitability calculator and check the wait in the payout time calculator.

Why does the threshold matter more than the fee at low hashrate?

A fee shifts income by percentage points, while a threshold shifts waiting time by whole multiples. Going from a 1% to a 4% fee barely moves your payout date. Going from a 0.0001 to a 0.005 BTC threshold makes the wait fifty times longer on identical hardware. At 100 TH/s that is the gap between this week and several months out.

A fee comes off the same expected share of the network in every pool. Your 100 TH/s has the same expectation everywhere, and the pool keeps its cut. A threshold is a different kind of number. It is a fixed amount of BTC, and your daily income either reaches it in reasonable time or it doesn't. That is why ranking pools on fee alone misleads, as covered in A 1% fee against a 4% fee.

For Bitaxe class devices around 1 TH/s, a 0.005 or 0.01 BTC threshold is out of reach within the hardware's working life. Only the top of the table applies. Sometimes the pool with the higher fee is the only one that works.

Can you withdraw before reaching the threshold?

Sometimes. Several pools set the manual withdrawal minimum apart from the automatic payout threshold. F2Pool, for example, allows manual Lightning withdrawals from 0.0005 BTC, a tenth of its auto payout threshold. Foundry USA lowers its threshold to 2730 sat on the last day of each month. Which pools pay over Lightning, and from what amount, is in our Lightning payouts roundup.

Should you withdraw daily if the threshold is low?

Not necessarily. If the pool passes the on-chain fee to you, frequent small payouts lose a visible share to network fees. A low threshold is worth having because it lets you leave at any time, not because you should cash out every day. Tpool says it covers the network fee. For the others, check.

If small payouts have already piled up on your address, you can merge them later. The when and how are in our piece on consolidating small pool payouts.

Which threshold fits my hashrate?

The rule of thumb: the smaller your hashrate, the lower the threshold should be. A single ASIC at 100 TH/s or less wants 0.0001 BTC or lower. A home farm from 300 TH/s is fine at 0.001 BTC. From 1 PH/s the threshold hardly matters, and fee, uptime and payout scheme take over as the deciding factors.

One ASIC up to 100 TH/s, first setup. Go for 0.0001 BTC or lower. An early first payout confirms that the worker, pool and wallet chain is wired correctly. Testing a fresh rig on a pool where the first coins arrive months later is awkward.

Home farm from 300 TH/s. A 0.001 BTC threshold stops being an obstacle. Uptime, rejected share rate and latency to the stratum server deserve more attention.

1 PH/s and above. Even 0.005 BTC fills quickly. Fee differences become real money here, so judge pools on the whole picture. Every pool with its terms is on the main comparison page.

Bitaxe and solo devices under 5 TH/s. Thresholds of 0.005 and 0.01 BTC are ruled out by arithmetic. Look only at NiceHash and the 0.0001 BTC pools.

How accurate are these estimates?

They hold at current network difficulty and are not a promise. Difficulty retargets every 2016 blocks, roughly every two weeks, and daily income moves with it. Three more things stretch the wait in practice:

1. Real hashrate often runs a few percent below the spec sheet.
2. Rejected shares and downtime earn nothing.
3. Under PPLNS, daily results swing around expectation more than under FPPS, so the first payout can come early or late.

Pools also pay on a schedule, usually once a day in a fixed window. Cross the threshold just after the daily cutoff and your coins go out with the next batch.

FAQ

What is a pool's minimum payout?

It is the balance you must accumulate before the pool sends coins to your address. Until then, earnings sit in your pool account.

Which bitcoin pool has the lowest payout threshold?

In our sample, NiceHash at 0.00001 BTC, though that goes to its internal wallet. Among pools paying straight to your own address, EMCD, Promminer and Tpool are lowest at 0.0001 BTC.

Can I change the threshold in pool settings?

Rules vary by pool: the table shows the default threshold, and whether it can be changed is set in the pool dashboard.

What happens to a balance below the threshold if I leave the pool?

It stays in the pool account until it reaches the threshold. With no hashrate going there, it can sit for a long time. Before moving, check whether the pool offers manual withdrawal at a lower minimum.

Does the payout scheme affect time to first payout?

Indirectly. FPPS and PPS+ credit a steady stream, so estimates track reality closely. PPLNS credit depends on blocks the pool actually finds, and at low hashrate the swings are visible. See the payout scheme reference.

Why is Binance Pool's threshold blank?

The pool does not publish a minimum payout on its public pages. Earnings are credited daily to the Funding Wallet. There is nothing to verify from outside, so the cell stays empty instead of holding a guess.

How often is this data updated?

Each threshold is checked against the pool's own page, with the date shown in the table. Terms change, so confirm in your pool dashboard before connecting.

This article contains referral links to mining pools (marked as sponsored). We may receive a reward if you register through them. This does not change the figures or the order of rows in the tables: the terms are taken from the pools' official pages.