Question 1

What is Kat Pool?

Accepted Answer

Kat Pool is a fully open-source Kaspa (KAS) mining pool. It runs a globally distributed, anycast stratum across seven regions, pays miners on a transparent PROP (proportional) scheme — each matured block's reward is shared by contribution over a recent-share window — and rebates part of the pool fee as NACHO.

Question 2

How much does Kat Pool cost? What is the fee?

Accepted Answer

The standard pool fee is 0.75%, of which 33% is rebated to every miner in NACHO — an effective fee of about 0.5%. Holders of NACHO tokens (100M+), Nacho Kats NFTs, or KATCLAIM NFTs receive 100% of the fee back as NACHO, making their effective fee 0%.

Question 3

Is Kat Pool a good HumPool alternative?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Kat Pool is open source, charges a lower effective fee than HumPool's 1%, supports all Kaspa ASIC models (IceRiver KS series, Bitmain KS/KA series), and uses a comparable proportional reward model over a recent-share window — so migrating from HumPool's PPLNS is straightforward.

Question 4

Which payout scheme and minimum payout does Kat Pool use?

Accepted Answer

Kat Pool uses a PROP (proportional) reward scheme: each matured block's reward is shared across miners by their contribution over a recent-share window. The minimum payout is 10 KAS, and a portion of fees is returned as NACHO (KRC-20) at each payout cycle.

Question 5

How do I start mining Kaspa on Kat Pool?

Accepted Answer

Point your miner at the anycast stratum host kas.katpool.com (ports 1111–8888, vardiff on every port), set your username to your Kaspa wallet address, and start hashing. Anycast routes you to the nearest of seven global regions automatically.

Question 6

Is Kat Pool open source?

Accepted Answer

Yes — the entire Kat Pool stack is open source on GitHub. You can audit the code, verify payouts, or run your own node.

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