ENTROPY IS NOT CREDITS. The ENTROPY number on screen is a count of how much you have played this session. It is not money, it has no cash value, it is not part of your credit balance, and it cannot be cashed out or exchanged. Credits are shown separately on the other side of the bar. Any token payout is handled by VDV, never by this machine.
You're renting real mining time — the table is where you spend it. Every hand you play is compute time running underneath the cards; the poker is the fun on top.
Rent a seat by the session — pricing scales with table stakes, from Quick Rent micro-stakes up to Marathon high-roller tables. You're paying for mining access for that window, not staking a wager, so what happens at the table is entertainment layered on a service you already paid for.
Your credit stack tracks the work your rented time is doing — not a bet you can lose outright. Play as many or as few hands as your session allows; your play is recorded either way, and any rare verified emission is credited to you by VDV, not by this machine — entropy itself is a play count with no cash value either way.
Every so often, a rented miner actually finds a block mid-hand. When it happens at your table, your own hand will show it — Four Aces, or a Royal Flush completed in your hole cards. That's a verified emission event, tracked separately from the chips in play.