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Orphan Risk & Payout Expectations
Understand orphan block risk, confirmation uncertainty, and payout expectation planning in solo mining.
Written for Scrypt miners (Antminer L7, L9 and similar) merge-mining Litecoin and Dogecoin together on doge.mysolopool.com.
Execution Sequence
- Model expected payout timelines with orphan and reorg risk in mind.
- Document what happens operationally after a found block and during confirmation windows.
- Set realistic payout expectations for stakeholders before each campaign.
- Review historical outcomes quarterly to refine risk assumptions.