Frequently asked questions

Most cloud mining services ask you to create an account, verify your identity, sign up for a subscription, and then just trust that they are actually mining on your behalf. DirectHash is different in every one of those ways.

There is no account and no KYC. You pay, mining starts, and rewards go directly from the pool to your Bitcoin address. We never touch your Bitcoin. You can verify your hashrate is active by checking your address on the pool dashboard at any time.

Enter your Bitcoin payout address, set a budget, and pay the invoice with Lightning or on-chain. Once payment confirms, real mining hardware is pointed at your address on whichever pool you selected. The session runs for however long your budget covers at the current hashrate price.

We never hold your Bitcoin. Payouts come directly from the pool to your address.

There is a 15% service fee, which is already included in the amount shown on the order page. What you see is what you pay. There are no hidden charges.

Of the total you pay, 85% goes toward purchasing hashrate and 15% covers the cost of running this service. The duration estimate shown on the homepage accounts for this, so you are never surprised.

Pool mining combines your hashrate with other miners. You earn a small, predictable share of each block the pool finds, proportional to your contribution. Rewards show up regularly. We use Ocean for pool orders.

Solo mining means your hashrate works independently toward finding a block. If you do, the full 3.125 BTC goes to your address. The odds are low but the payoff is direct and uncensored. We use Braiins Solo for solo orders, which charges a 0.5% fee credited to the CKPool software authors.

For short rental periods, solo is genuinely a lottery. Pool gives you a predictable small reward. Neither is better in absolute terms; it depends on what you are after.

Pool (Ocean): Ocean uses TIDES — your shares accumulate and are paid out in the coinbase of each block Ocean finds, proportional to your contribution. Shares do not expire, so even short sessions earn a payout eventually. You can track your balance at ocean.xyz. Ocean also supports Lightning payouts — set this up at ocean.xyz before your session if you prefer to receive sats over Lightning.

Solo (Braiins Solo): If a block is found during your session, the full reward is sent directly to your address on-chain. If no block is found, you receive nothing. You can check your solo stats at solo.braiins.com or directly at https://solo.braiins.com/stats/<your-bitcoin-address>.

We store your Bitcoin payout address, the order amount, duration, and payment hash. We do not collect your name, email, IP address, or any other identifying information. No account is created and nothing is linked to your identity.

Your payout address is used as a reference to look up your orders. If you lose it, we have no way to recover it for you.

The minimum is 12000 sats. This covers the cost of sourcing and routing real hashrate for even a short session. Orders below this amount are not economical to run.

The default hashrate is 1 PH/s (1,000 TH/s). You can adjust this in the Advanced settings, but the minimum is 1 PH/s.