user-1: If I understand well, when being part of a pool, you are asking to solve problems that are easier than the real one, typically finding a hash starting with n zeros instead of n+1 or something.
And you will be awarded some fraction of BTC depending on how much "easy" problems you solved.
But when (if) you find by chance a solution to the full difficult problem, why would you send it to the pool and not submitting a block to the network by yourself and not sharing anything?

user24925: The work given by a pool includes the coinbase transaction which defines the payment as going to the pool, and is unique to that. If the client modifies the payout address, the proof of work they have done is invalidated. They can not steal money from the pool by doing this.

-1: <p>If I understand well, when being part of a pool, you are asking to solve problems that are easier than the real one, typically finding a hash starting with n zeros instead of n+1 or something.
And you will be awarded some fraction of BTC depending on how much &quot;easy&quot; problems you solved.</p>
<p>But when (if) you find by chance a solution to the full difficult problem, why would you send it to the pool and not submitting a block to the network by yourself and not sharing anything?</p>
 24925: <p>The work given by a pool includes the coinbase transaction which defines the payment as going to the pool, and is unique to that. If the client modifies the payout address, the proof of work they have done is invalidated. They can not steal money from the pool by doing this.</p>
