Pool policy

DogeCaves.live is an independently operated Dogecoin (Scrypt) mining pool run by John Eirik Furubotn. It is a new pool with no connection to any earlier website, pool or operator that used this or any related domain name in the past.

We are not responsible for balances, accounts or obligations of earlier operators of any previous site. Everyone starts fresh here.

The pool fee is 0.9% of block rewards. It is deducted before your balance is credited, so nothing is charged separately and there are no hidden or per-payout service fees from us.

Dogecoin network transaction fees on outgoing payouts are deducted from the payment itself, as with any on-chain transfer. If the fee ever changes, the new figure is published on this page and on the front page before it takes effect.

Rewards use PPLNS — pay per last N shares. Every share your miner submits is recorded with the difficulty it was solved at, and when the pool finds a block the reward is split between miners in proportion to the difficulty-weighted accepted shares in the recent window.

Stale and rejected shares earn nothing. Because PPLNS follows block discovery rather than a fixed schedule, income is lumpy: quiet periods and sudden jumps are both normal.

Payouts are automatic. When your unpaid balance passes the published threshold (currently 50 DOGE) and the pool wallet holds enough confirmed funds, the payment is sent on the next payout run to the address in your miner username.

Runs happen regularly, but confirmations, node sync and maintenance can delay them. Every completed payout shows its Dogecoin transaction ID on the payouts page so you can verify it on the blockchain yourself.

We intend to pay every miner what they have earned and we work to make that happen. That is the truth, and the transaction IDs on this site are the proof.

If a payout fails we retry it. If something goes wrong on our side, tell us and we will fix it or make it right where we can. We cannot, however, guarantee a particular amount, a particular schedule, or that the pool will find blocks at any given rate.

This is real software run by a small operator. The pool may experience downtime, restarts, bugs, missed shares or temporarily incorrect statistics, and we will say so on the blog when it happens.

Block luck is random. A long dry spell does not mean anything is broken, and a lucky streak is not a promise of future income. We do not guarantee uptime, earnings or luck.

You mine with your own Dogecoin address and there is no account to recover. Check your address character by character — rewards sent to a mistyped address, or to an exchange address that rejects small deposits, cannot be recovered by us or by anyone.

We will never ask for your seed phrase, private keys or a payment of any kind. Keep your wallet, your rigs and your worker names under your own control.

Any Scrypt miner is welcome, from an Antminer L3+ to an L7 or a Goldshell Mini-DOGE. Share difficulty is set automatically by vardiff and adjusts to your hashrate within a few minutes of connecting.

Unusually high reject rates are usually latency or firmware settings rather than pool faults, but tell us if it persists and we will look into it.

Do not attack the pool, flood it with invalid shares, exploit bugs instead of reporting them, or use it for anything illegal. Do not mine with hardware or electricity you are not entitled to use.

We may throttle, disconnect or ban miners who breach this section, and withhold rewards obtained through abuse.

There is no sign-up and no personal profile. We store your payout address, worker names and mining statistics because the pool cannot pay you otherwise, and the dashboard is public by design — anyone with an address can look up its stats. Full detail is in the privacy policy.

If your figures look wrong, email nomoreplayingaroundme@gmail.com with your Dogecoin address, worker name and roughly when the problem started. We investigate every report and answer in plain language.

Where we made a mistake that cost you rewards, we correct the balance. Where the cause was network difficulty, block luck or your own hardware, we will explain honestly what we found.

By connecting a miner, or by checking the acceptance box on the setup page, you accept this policy together with the terms of service. If you do not agree, do not mine.

This policy may be updated as the pool grows. The version published here, with the date shown above, is the one that applies.