<p>They have to be mining the entire time on a block template <em>created by the pool</em> -- i.e. a block that pays the coinbase transaction to the mining pool and not to themselves.</p>
<p>The hashes they are trying depend on that template, so they can't change the template after they got a good hash, otherwise that would invalidate the block entirely.</p>

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fiatjaf
<p>The payout address for the miners mined blocks is the pool's moderator address. If the miners are working on blocks with a different payout address (ex. their own), the pool moderator can tell and act accordingly by either banning them or simply ignoring their work.</p>

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Luca Matteis
<p>From what I understand miners submit their hashes to the pool. What prevents a miner to disengage the pool as soon as she finds the right hash?</p>

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possible duplicate of [What prevents a pool miner from stealing an entire block?](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/10687/what-prevents-a-pool-miner-from-stealing-an-entire-block)
Jacob Krall
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What prevents miners in a pool from retaining the reward?
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# What prevents miners in a pool from retaining the reward?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-06-30)

From what I understand miners submit their hashes to the pool. What prevents a miner to disengage the pool as soon as she finds the right hash?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: possible duplicate of [What prevents a pool miner from stealing an entire block?](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/10687/what-prevents-a-pool-miner-from-stealing-an-entire-block)  

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### Answer by username_3 on 2014-06-30. Score: 6 | Accepted answer

The payout address for the miners mined blocks is the pool's moderator address. If the miners are working on blocks with a different payout address (ex. their own), the pool moderator can tell and act accordingly by either banning them or simply ignoring their work.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2023-09-23. Score: 0

They have to be mining the entire time on a block template *created by the pool* -- i.e. a block that pays the coinbase transaction to the mining pool and not to themselves.

The hashes they are trying depend on that template, so they can't change the template after they got a good hash, otherwise that would invalidate the block entirely.


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