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The mining pool pays your pasted address directly — Pasiv never holds or routes your coins. Payout timing and minimums are the pool's: Monero pays via MoneroOcean, Zephyr and Salvium via HeroMiners, each once your accrued balance passes the pool's minimum payout threshold. You can look up your address on the pool's website any time to see your pending balance.

The app is free to install and use. Pasiv's fee is 4%, on Monero only — taken as time-sliced mining, so for 4% of Monero mining time, shares go to Pasiv's fee address instead of yours. Every other coin (Pearl, Ravencoin, Ergo, Verus, Zephyr, Salvium) carries no Pasiv fee at all. 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.

Two other fees exist that aren't ours and never reach Pasiv: your pool charges its own fee, typically around 1%, under its own terms; and the XMRig engine Pasiv bundles keeps a 1% donation to its developers. 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 passive income from a machine that's on anyway, not a business plan.

An opt-in mode (the ⚡ chip) where Pasiv automatically mines whichever supported coin is most profitable for your machine right now, re-checking every 15 minutes using public price and network data. It only switches when the leader is ahead by a clear margin, and the app always shows what it picked and why. Turn it off to stay on a coin you prefer to hold.

Healthy question — the space earned it. Pasiv's builds are Developer ID-signed and Apple-notarized, 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 is only ever sent to the mining pool you chose. 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) and runs on the Windows/Linux builds: Pearl from ≥3 GB of VRAM, Ravencoin or Ergo from ≥6 GB. 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: the bundled engine lists support, but Pasiv hasn't verified them on real hardware yet, so they aren't offered. The same goes for pre-Turing NVIDIA (GTX 10-series): listed by the miner, gated off until we've measured it.

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. Sign in with MetaMask or Phantom 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 and minimal to begin with (no addresses, no autocapture, no session recording — see the privacy policy), and the toggle turns them off entirely.

Yes — all three are live. macOS (Apple Silicon), Windows (x64), and Linux (AppImage and .deb, x86-64) all download from the download page. On Windows and Linux you can also mine Pearl (PRL), Ravencoin (RVN) or Ergo (ERG) on an NVIDIA GPU.

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. For the bundled GPU miner, Pasiv instead asks once, opt-in, to add a Defender exclusion for that one file — explained before it happens, and removed when you uninstall.