ViaBTC has upgraded its Ambassador Program, now paying approved ambassadors a 20% lifetime commission on every new miner they refer to the pool. Referred miners get a 50% fee-discount coupon valid for 30 days. The move is a straight play for growth: bring in someone who keeps mining, and you keep earning.
Lifetime commission, no renegotiation
The 20% cut is permanent. When a referral agreement expires, the commission doesn't get reassessed or renegotiated — it stays at 20% as long as the referred miner is active. That's a deliberate departure from the standard model where terms get revisited periodically. No need to come back to the table.
Who can become an ambassador
Not everyone gets a referral link. The program targets people with an established mining community, a content audience, or an industry network. The examples are specific: a Southeast Asian miner with a small-to-medium farm can earn by pushing referrals through Telegram groups, or a North American content creator can drop links in YouTube video descriptions. The value is the network, not the hardware.
What a referral is worth
The math is straightforward. If a referred miner generates 0.01 BTC in pool fees, the ambassador earns 0.002 BTC — 20% on the spot, or about 140 USDT at 70,000 USDT/BTC. The lifetime structure means those earnings keep stacking as long as the referral keeps mining.
Ten years in
ViaBTC was founded in 2016 and celebrated its tenth anniversary this year. The pool serves more than two million users across 150 countries and regions, and its hashrate consistently ranks among the industry's highest. The ambassador upgrade is the latest push in a year that's already seen the pool lean into referral networks — but it's also a bet that the people who feed in miners are the ones who stick around.
The program is live now, and there's no indication ViaBTC plans to cap the number of ambassadors it approves. The real test is whether the lifetime commission holds up if the pool's hashrate starts shifting — but for now, the offer is on the table.
