This pool runs in solo mode. Each block it finds pays the miner who found it, directly in that block's coinbase. Nothing accrues between blocks: a share that does not become a block earns nothing — it only proves you are working and sets your difficulty. There is no PPS credit, no pool wallet and no Thunder payout in this mode.

When one of your shares does become a block, the coinbase pays your address the block reward minus the operator fee of 0.10%, which goes to bc1qljvzxk0tp6qtrunt590z5rtdhs8jhkkn4ny4rm. Coinbase outputs mature after 100 confirmations (roughly 16 hours), so a block shows up here well before it is spendable in your wallet. If the fee would come to under 546 sats it is dropped as dust and you take the whole reward.

Connect a miner

stratum+tcp://pool.vaultnet.sh:3334
username:  <your-bitcoin-address>[.<rig_label>]
password:  (ignored — any value)

The username must be a Bitcoin address this pool can build an output for: P2WPKH (bc1q…), P2PKH (1…) or P2SH (3…) on main. Taproot (bc1p…) is not supported and is rejected at authorize, as is a Thunder address — that is the other mode. Both fail with "invalid payout address in stratum username". The optional .<rig_label> groups multiple rigs paying the same address as separate rows on the per-worker page.

Which port to connect to

stratum+tcp://pool.vaultnet.sh:3334   individual miners — difficulty from 1, vardiff follows your rig
stratum+tcp://pool.vaultnet.sh:3335   rented or aggregated hashrate (braiins) — difficulty 1,048,576, held
stratum+tcp://pool.vaultnet.sh:3336   rented or aggregated hashrate (nicehash) — difficulty 2,000,000, held

Which port you use does not change what you earn. Nothing is credited between blocks in this mode — only a block pays — and being served a larger difficulty does not make one harder to find. It changes how often your miner reports in, not how often it wins.

They exist because one difficulty cannot serve both kinds of miner. Rented hashrate does not arrive as a crowd of small rigs — a marketplace aggregates a whole fleet behind a single connection, and 1 PH/s at difficulty 1,024 is already about 227 shares per second down that one socket. On a port meant for a home ASIC the same fleet is hundreds of thousands per second: the pool limits the connection, and what the marketplace sees is a pool rejecting its work.

Vardiff cannot repair that after the fact. It moves by at most 4× per window, so climbing from 1 to 65,536 takes eight windows — around four minutes — and the rejects on the way up are what gets an order cancelled. The connection has to arrive at the right difficulty, which is what the second port is for.

A port with a held floor keeps it even when the chain is easier than the floor, because a marketplace measures the difficulty on the wire and cancels an order served under what the port advertised. When that happens your miner discards solutions the chain would have accepted, so mine on a floored port only if something is actually requiring it of you. This pool is not in that position right now.