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<h1>The fee, in full view.</h1>
<p class="lead">The protocol carries no fee: no dev fund, no fee to any team, foundation or fund. The software fee is the miner app’s, like every other GPU miner’s, and one flag turns it off.</p>
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        <p>The <span data-product="name">Ember</span> software takes a visible, switchable 1% dev fee, the norm for GPU miners. One block template in 100 is requested with the dev payout address instead of yours. The fee goes to Igneum Labs LTD, the company that ships the software.</p>
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            <tr><td>The app, Earnings</td><td>the Dev fee switch under the money rows</td></tr>
            <tr><td>The command line</td><td class="mono">--dev-fee 0</td></tr>
            <tr><td>HiveOS, extra config</td><td class="mono">DEV_FEE=0</td></tr>
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        <p class="note">Measured on a test network, 4 Oct 2026: 9 fee blocks in the 785 blocks of two fee-paying miners (1.146%); the control miner at <span class="mono">--dev-fee 0</span> paid none; the miners’ counters and both nodes agree. <a href="/bench">The log</a>.</p>
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        <div class="eyebrow">Earnings, as the app shows it</div>
        <div class="switch"><span class="track"></span><span>Dev fee: 1 block in 100 pays the people who make this app</span></div>
        <p class="note">The network itself takes nothing. This is the app’s fee, the same way every mining app takes one. This switch turns it off.</p>
        <div class="eyebrow" style="margin-top:var(--s-5)">What the miner prints at start</div>
<pre>dev fee 1% (1 block in 100) to 0x&lt;address&gt;; --dev-fee 0 turns it off</pre>
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