Have you ever mined Bitcoin with someone else? Maybe a friend who owns the rig. Maybe a partner at a mining farm. Maybe a family member who paid for half the hardware.
If so, you know the hard part isn’t the mining. It’s the math after. Someone has to add up the day’s earnings. Then split it. Then send the money. Do that every single day, and it gets old fast.
ViaBTC is a big Bitcoin mining pool. It has a tool for this problem. It’s called Revenue Sharing. It splits the money for you, automatically. No math needed. Here’s how it works.
What Revenue Sharing Does
Revenue Sharing lets you set a percentage of your daily mining money to send to other people. You pick who gets paid. You pick how much. The pool does the rest, every day, on its own.
ViaBTC built this for “partnered mining.” That just means more than one person has a stake in the same mining setup. A few real examples:
- You and a friend own one rig together and split the earnings 50/50
- You mine at someone else’s mining farm, and a cut of your earnings goes back to the farm owner
- A family shares one mining setup and splits the earnings a few ways
Before this tool, someone had to do the math by hand every time. That took work. It could also lead to mistakes or arguments. Revenue Sharing just does it automatically instead.
One Important Thing to Know
The name says “Revenue Sharing.” But it does not split your mining power. It splits the money. All the mining still happens on one account. The pool just sends a slice of that money to other accounts you pick. Some people call this “shared hashrate.” That’s the wrong word. It’s really shared money, not shared mining power.
Want to try it yourself? You can sign up for a ViaBTC account here. (This is an affiliate link. If you sign up through it, MinerSignal may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. That doesn’t change our honest take on the feature above.)
How to Set It Up
- Log into your ViaBTC account. Go to Pool > Mining Settings.
- Find the Revenue Sharing section for the coin you’re mining. You set this up separately for each coin.
- Add the account or accounts you want to share with. Pick a percentage for each one.
- Hit save. Your new split starts from that point forward. It does not touch money you already earned.
You can add up to 100 people per coin. You can change the percentages, or remove someone, anytime.
When the Money Actually Shows Up
ViaBTC doesn’t pay out shares in real time. It adds up your earnings once a day, then pays your partners their share the next day. So money you earn today, your partners see tomorrow — not right away.
Here’s one detail worth knowing: whatever percentage you’ve promised to share gets set aside first. The rest is yours, and you can withdraw it right away. If your balance is ever too low to cover a day’s promised shares, ViaBTC just waits and pays it once there’s enough money.
There’s also a withdrawal threshold to know about. ViaBTC only sends a payout once an account’s balance hits a minimum amount. In the past, that minimum for Bitcoin was 0.01 BTC. ViaBTC can change this number over time, so check your own account’s current setting instead of trusting an old figure. This matters for Revenue Sharing too. If the slice you send a recipient each day is small, it may take several days to build up past that minimum. Once it does, it gets paid out. It’s not lost. It’s just waiting to clear the threshold.
This tool works for almost every coin ViaBTC supports. That includes Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum, plus a few others. The one coin it doesn’t work for, as of this writing, is SYS.
Why This Matters Even If You Use GoMining
Do you use GoMining? Then this is still worth knowing. GoMining lets you pick a pool for your mining. You can choose from three: Binance Pool, ViaBTC, or Foundry. If you picked ViaBTC, you’re already using the same pool this post is about. GoMining’s own app doesn’t have a Revenue Sharing button. This is a ViaBTC account feature, not a GoMining one. But it helps to know how the pool behind your miner actually works.
How Pool Payout Methods Affect What Gets Shared
Revenue Sharing splits your daily mining money, but how big and how steady that money is depends on the payout method your pool uses in the first place. ViaBTC offers a few different options, like PPS+ and PPLNS, and each one changes how bumpy your earnings feel before you ever split them. We cover the differences in Mining Pool Fees Explained.
What About Going Solo Instead?
Revenue Sharing is built for splitting steady pool earnings. Some miners skip pools entirely and try to find a whole block on their own instead. That path is called solo mining, and the odds behind it are a lot wilder than most people expect. I break down the real math in Solo Bitcoin Mining, Explained.
The Honest Take
Since GoMining can route its mining power through partner pools like ViaBTC anyway, you might wonder if you even need a ViaBTC account of your own. We compare the two paths side by side, hardware vs. no hardware, in ViaBTC vs GoMining, Explained.
Revenue Sharing is a genuinely useful tool. If you split mining earnings with someone, it saves you a headache. It takes away the “let me do the math” conversation. It replaces that with an automatic, fair split.
But it doesn’t change how mining actually works. Your earnings still depend on Bitcoin’s price. They also depend on how hard the network is to mine. Both of those change all the time. Nobody controls them. Splitting earnings with a partner doesn’t create new money. It just automates how you divide the money you already have.
This post is for general information and education only, not financial or investment advice. Mining income is never guaranteed, and nothing here should be read as a promise of what you or your mining partners will earn. Feature details reflect ViaBTC’s published documentation at the time of writing and may change — always check ViaBTC’s own help center for the current setup steps and limits before relying on this feature.
Sources: What Is & How to Set Revenue Sharing — ViaBTC Help Center, Announcement on Launching Revenue Sharing — ViaBTC Help Center, ViaBTC Launches Revenue Sharing for the Emerging Partnered Mining — ViaBTC, Raising Minimum Limit of BTC & BCH Auto Withdrawal — ViaBTC Help Center, How to Set Min. Payment for Auto Withdrawal — ViaBTC Help Center
