Braiins Pool is now FPPS (guaranteed regular payouts).

I had only mined in their previous PPLNS* system.

Braiins could go days without finding a block, so FPPS feels like an improved experience.

Statistically it shouldn't(?) make a difference which payout system you're in (assuming no pool shenanigans), but the guaranteed ongoing payout is psychologically more comforting.

I didn't realize that hashing credit would accrue every 5 min(?) or so. That's nice. If you popped in and hashed for 20 minutes and then shut down, you'd still get paid out for that span of work (unlike PPLNS where you could easily yield nothing, depending on luck).

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*(PPLNS: paid only when they find a block, highly variable, and your hash participation credit dwindles quickly if you stop hashing--i.e. you get nothing if you mined for a while but dropped out before the pool found the next block)