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The mining pool pays your own address directly — Pasiv never holds or routes your money. Since Pasiv 0.5.0, new installs mine on unMineable's pool, which converts what you mine to USDT and pays your address (BNB Smart Chain or TRON) once a day, from 1.5 USDT; on a graphics card the first payout usually lands within a day or two. Rather hold Bitcoin? Since Pasiv 0.6.10 you can choose BTC instead, in Wallets → Get paid, paid to your own Bitcoin address — but unMineable pays BTC only once the balance reaches its BTC minimum (0.00075 BTC, roughly $60), so it can take weeks or months; the app shows that minimum and an estimate of the wait at your computer's own rate before you choose. Installs from before 0.5.0 that pay a coin address directly (the direct route) keep their pools until their owner chooses Switch to USDT payouts: Monero via MoneroOcean and Pearl via LuckyPool, each paying once your balance passes the pool's minimum. You can look up your address on the pool's website any time to see your pending balance.

Get your own code in the Pasiv app under Settings → Share & earn (you sign in with a wallet first) and choose to be paid in USDT or Bitcoin. Anyone who sets up Pasiv with your code sends you 1% of their mining for 12 months (2% for approved creators), paid by the unMineable pool straight to your address — Pasiv never holds it. It comes out of Pasiv's own 4% fee, so the person using your code still pays exactly 4%, nothing extra. Got a code from a friend? Enter it at setup or in Wallets: Pasiv shows you who it pays before you confirm, keeps it on your machine, and you can remove it any time. Every slice shows in your fee ledger.

The app is free to install and use. Pasiv's fee is 4% of mining time — on every coin on the USDT route (the default since Pasiv 0.5.0), and on Monero only on the direct route (installs from before 0.5.0 that pay a coin address directly). It is taken as time-sliced mining: for 4% of mining time, shares go to Pasiv's fee address instead of yours. Paused or idle time is never charged, and the in-app fee ledger shows every slice next to the public fee address, which you can check on its mining pool.

Other fees exist that aren't ours. On the USDT route, unMineable's pool fee is 0.75% (1%, lowered by Pasiv's referral code), and unMineable pays Pasiv a 0.25% referral out of that fee — not out of your earnings. On the direct route your pool charges its own fee, typically around 1%. The CPU engine keeps its developers' share: XMRig 1%. The GPU engine is Pasiv's own build of an open-source Pearl miner, run with its developer fee switched off, so nothing on the GPU lane goes to a third party. We list them so nothing in your payout is a surprise.

It depends on your hardware, coin prices and network difficulty — and it changes constantly. Pasiv shows a live estimate for the coins it supports; the figure is gross, before electricity, and never guaranteed. Treat it as a small extra from a machine that's on anyway, not a business plan.

Healthy question — the space earned it. Pasiv's builds are signed on every platform (Developer ID-signed and Apple-notarized on macOS, Authenticode-signed on Windows), updates are cryptographically verified before install, and the app is structurally non-custodial: there's no wallet inside, no place to enter a seed phrase, and your payout address goes to the mining pool — and, only if you sign in while paid in USDT, to your account, so your headless nodes know where to pay you. Mining never starts until you press start, and Quit always stops it. The whitepaper covers the full trust model.

Mining uses your CPU, so the fans may spin up under full load. Pasiv's governor watches thermals and battery state and throttles or pauses to keep the machine healthy, and you can pause manually any time from the menu bar. If you're on battery, expect Pasiv to be conservative.

The GPU engine needs a modern NVIDIA card (Turing or newer: RTX, or GTX 16-series) and runs on the Windows/Linux builds: Pearl from ≥3 GB of VRAM. Macs don't have NVIDIA GPUs, so on macOS the GPU engine stays hidden — the app only ever shows what your hardware can actually run. AMD cards: paused since Pasiv 0.6.11. The GPU engine is CUDA-only, so Radeon RX 6000, 7000 and 9000 cards aren't offered Pearl until an AMD card has been measured on it; older AMD cards aren't offered either. The same goes for pre-Turing NVIDIA (GTX 10-series): gated off until we've measured it.

You only need one on the direct route; since Pasiv 0.5.0, new installs are paid in USDT. If you do want one, download it only from the official Pearl Research Labs release page: github.com/pearl-research-labs/pearl/releases ↗ — the official desktop wallet, with builds for macOS, Windows and Linux. A Pearl address starts with prl1. Be careful: several look-alike “Pearl wallet” sites rank in search results. They're unverified, make contradictory technical claims, and some describe a different chain entirely — do not download a Pearl wallet from anywhere but the official GitHub above. As always, Pasiv only ever needs your public address, never your keys or seed phrase.

No. A payout address is all mining needs. Wallet sign-in (MetaMask, Phantom or any WalletConnect wallet) exists as an optional extra that proves address ownership by signing a message — it never exposes your keys and skipping it costs you nothing.

Stop: press the pearl again, or Quit from the menu-bar icon — quitting always stops mining. Uninstall: quit the app, then drag Pasiv from Applications to the Trash. Nothing keeps running afterwards, and your coins are unaffected because they were only ever at your address and your pool.

Settings → analytics toggle. Analytics are anonymous unless you sign in, and minimal to begin with (no wallet or payout addresses, no autocapture, no session recording — see the privacy policy). Signed in, events are linked by an opaque id, a one-way hash of your account id. The toggle turns them off entirely.

Yes — all three are live. macOS (Apple Silicon), Windows (x64), and Linux (.deb and .rpm, x86-64, one line: curl -fsSL https://pasiv.network/linux.sh | sh) all install from the install page. On Windows and Linux you can also mine Pearl (PRL) on an NVIDIA GPU (GTX 16 / RTX 20-series or newer).

Windows builds are code-signed and timestamped, so Windows names the publisher rather than warning about an unknown one. You may still see a SmartScreen prompt for a while: our certificate is newly issued, and SmartScreen also weighs how many people have downloaded a given build. If it appears, choose More info → Run anyway. You can confirm the signature yourself — right-click the installer, Properties → Digital Signatures, and it should show a valid, timestamped signature.

Mining software also attracts Microsoft Defender false-positives — a generic machine-learning flag on the bundle, not a detection of anything in it. Signing reduces this but does not end it, and we report each case to Microsoft directly. We will not tell you to add an antivirus exclusion — that's exactly what real malware asks for, and we won't train anyone to do it. Since 0.6.11 the GPU engine is Pasiv's own build, signed with the same certificate as the app and downloaded into an ordinary folder: no permission prompt, no exclusion. The CPU miner (XMRig, a third-party binary we do not sign) is the one place Pasiv still asks once, opt-in, to skip its own miner folder — explained before it happens.