Mining Guide
Lightning Miner is a virtual mining faucet. Your miners give you hashpower, your hashpower earns a share of the active mining pool, and you can withdraw supported crypto once your account has enough settled balance.
Your live mining balance is an estimate of unsettled mining earnings while your miner is active. It updates on your screen so you can see the miner running, but it can be recalculated when the page refreshes, when you reconnect, when you switch currencies, when you recharge energy, or when the server settles your account.
Your settled balance is the amount finalized after the server updates your account. Mining settles every 60 minutes. It also settles immediately during important actions such as switching mining currency, recharging mining energy, converting mined crypto to coins, requesting a withdrawal, or claiming a quest reward that pays into your crypto balance.
Once mining earnings are settled, normal pool changes should not remove those settled earnings. Other events, such as withdrawals, offerwall reversals, corrections, or account penalties, can still change balances.
If you leave the page open for a long time, the number on the screen may keep estimating from older pool conditions. When you refresh later, the server uses the current pool data and your current account state. That can make the live number appear lower than what the old tab showed, but it does not mean finalized crypto was taken away from your account.
Lightning Miner has a shared reward pool for active miners. Your earning rate depends on your share of the active hashpower. If you have 100 H/s and the active site total is 1,000 H/s, you have about 10% of the pool. If more users recharge or upgrade and the active total becomes 2,000 H/s, the same 100 H/s becomes about 5% of the pool.
The reward pool also grows based on site activity. More deposits, offerwall completions, PTC views, shortlink completions, faucet claims, and other earning activity can increase how much the mining pool pays out. That means the pool is not only about splitting a fixed number; active users can help grow the total rewards available.
This is why the rate per hour can move up or down even when your miners did not change. More active hashpower on the site spreads the pool across more power. Upgrading your miners, linking Lightning Quest progress, or buying stronger miners increases your own share.
Mining only runs while your energy is active. New users start with a short starter timer. Your first recharge is free, then you can recharge again each day after earning 10 coins from PTC or offerwalls, or after completing a shortlink. If energy runs out, you do not lose your miners or crypto balance; your account simply stops mining until you recharge.
Coins are the site currency used to buy and upgrade virtual miners. You can earn coins from the faucet, daily bonus, PTC, quests, shortlinks, offerwalls, referrals, and other site features.
You choose which supported crypto you want to mine. Switching currencies settles the previous mining estimate first, then new mining goes toward the newly selected currency.
Withdrawals use the methods shown on the wallet page, including FaucetPay for supported currencies. If you run into withdrawal issues, contact support@lightningminer.com.
The dashboard rate is based on the active pool at that moment. It can change when users recharge energy, when inactive users expire, when people upgrade miners, when you increase your own hashpower, when your starter bonus ends, or when site pool settings are updated.
If your hashpower goes up, your share should improve compared with what it would have been without the upgrade. But the visible rate can still move if the rest of the active pool changes around the same time.
Your live balance is an estimate. Your settled balance is the finalized server-tracked balance. Mining settles every 60 minutes, and immediately when you take key account actions. Your rate is based on your share of active site hashpower. Refreshing does not take away finalized crypto; it updates the estimate using current pool conditions. To earn more, keep mining energy active, earn coins, upgrade miners, complete quests, and grow your hashpower.